Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas from Virgil's "Aeneid"

John Everett Millais1843

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Title: Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas from Virgil's "Aeneid"
Creator: John Everett Millais (British, 1829-1896)
Date Created: 1843
Physical Dimensions: 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.)
Provenance: Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, Ohio
Type: Drawing
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.253
Medium: pen and black ink on original mount
Inscriptions: 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).
Department: Drawings
Culture: England, 19th century
Credit Line: Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
Collection: DR - British
Accession Number: 2013.253

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