Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IV: Love of Dido and Aeneas, after Aeneas's departure Dido kills herself / vv. 304-387: Dido, having learned of Aeneas impending departure, challenges him
Modern / Schlegel, Johann Elias / Dido

Further details

Probably illustration for the tragedy Dido by Johann Elias Schlegel, published inter alia in Johann Christoph Gottsched, Deutsche Schaubühne, vol. 5, Leipzig 1744

Artist or creator

Nilson, Johann Esaias (1721-1788)

Date

18th century (middle)

Location

Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Katalog der deutschen Zeichnungen: Alte Meister, ed. Edmund Schilling, Kurt Schwarzweller, Frankfurt 1972, no. 1825

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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