The Golden Bough after J.M.W. Turner - Engraving by T.A. Prior - 1851
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Original engraving by T. A. Prior after J. M. W. Turner's painting The Golden Bough. The Cumaean Sibyl holds the sickle and the freshly cut golden bough before Lake Avernus, with the Fates dancing beyond.
Original engraving by T. A. Prior after J. M. W. Turner's painting The Golden Bough. The Cumaean Sibyl holds the sickle and the freshly cut golden bough before Lake Avernus, with the Fates dancing beyond.
It comes from The Vernon Gallery, the series that reproduced the collection given to the nation by Robert Vernon in 1847, now in the Tate. The episode is taken from Virgil's Aeneid: Aeneas may descend to the underworld only if he offers Proserpine the golden bough.
Medium: Steel engraving.
Artist / after: J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851).
Engraver: T. A. Prior.
Date: 1851.
Source: The Vernon Gallery.
Dimensions: 9.3 x 12.7 in (23.5 x 32.2 cm).
Condition: Good condition, with wide margins and a few isolated specks in the paper.
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Original engraving by T. A. Prior after J. M. W. Turner's painting The Golden Bough. The Cumaean Sibyl holds the sickle and the freshly cut golden bough before Lake Avernus, with the Fates dancing beyond.