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LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IV: Love of Dido and Aeneas, after Aeneas's departure Dido kills herself / vv. 642-666: Dido stabs herself with Aeneas's sword / Dido stabs herself, standing or kneeling, with no funeral pyre in sight

Further details

Artist or creator

Altdorfer, Albrecht (c1480-1538)

Date

1520 (circa) - 1530

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Prints and Drawings)

Notes on photograph

Project

Bartsch

Bibliographic Citation

New Hollstein e.48

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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