File:Textile, La Mort de Didon (The Death of Dido), ca. 1790 (CH 18666445).jpg
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editEnglish: Textile, La Mort de Didon (The Death of Dido), ca. 1790
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English: Textile, La Mort de Didon (The Death of Dido), ca. 1790 |
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English: Scenes of people in classical dress illustrating a story from Virgil's Aeneid that inspired two operas in eighteenth-century France. Aeneas leaves Troy in flames carrying his father Anchises in his arms, Aeneas abandons Dido who then kills herself, and Aeneas kills Turmus. In red on white. |
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| Date | circa 1790 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | cotton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Warp x Weft: 128.5 x 98.5 cm (50 9/16 x 38 3/4 in.) Repeat H: 84.5 cm (33 1/4 in.) Width of plate: 94.5 cm (37 1/4 in.) |
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1995-50-85 |
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| Credit line | Bequest of Elinor Merrell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | Catalog Photo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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