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Document identity
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170732
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Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas from Virgil's "Aeneid"
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drawing
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Source metadata
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170732
contentType
drawing
title
Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas from Virgil's "Aeneid"
date
1843
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80079837
creators
63375
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 36.1 x 48.7 cm (14 3/16 x 19 3/16 in.); Secondary Support: 43.1 x 55.4 cm (16 15/16 x 21 13/16 in.)
cul
England, 19th century
accession
2013.253
Source extras
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pen and black ink on original mount
tombstone
Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas from Virgil's "Aeneid", 1843. John Everett Millais (British, 1829–1896). Pen and black ink on original mount; sheet: 36.1 x 48.7 cm (14 3/16 x 19 3/16 in.); secondary support: 43.1 x 55.4 cm (16 15/16 x 21 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz, 2013.253
supportMaterials
description
light tan, medium-weight, slightly textured, wove paper
collection
DR - British
inscriptions
inscription
inscribed, original mount, lower right, in black ink: J. E. Millais / 1843
inscribed, original mount, lower margin, in black ink: They rear his drooping forehead from the ground;/ But when Aeneas view’d the grisly wound / Which Pallas in his manly bosom bore, / And the fair flesh distain’d with purple gore:/ First, melting into tears, the pious man/ Deplor’d so sad a sight, then thus began
inscribed, original mount, lower right, in black ink: Dryden’s Virgil [?] Book (worn away)
note: Inscription from John Dryden’s (1631-1700) translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book XI (1697).
creditline
Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
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2026-05-29 08:45:34.378000
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170732
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Drawings
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DR - British
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pen and black ink on original mount
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male
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0
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photo
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