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LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IV: Love of Dido and Aeneas, after Aeneas's departure Dido kills herself / vv. 702-705: Iris cuts a lock out of Dido's hair, allowing her to die

Further details

Copy after the painting in the Royal Collection

Artist or creator

Reynolds, Joshua (Sir) (1723-1792) (after)

Date

1781

Location

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art (inv. E1924-3-18)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Edgar Wind, Borrowed 'Attitudes' in Reynolds and Hogarth, Journal of the Warburg Institute 2,2 (1938), pp. 182-185; Exhibition British Art and the Mediterranean, pl. 64,1

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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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