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Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas from Virgil's "Aeneid"
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).
Provenance
Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, Ohio
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Everett Millais (British, 1829–1896)
- Date
- 1843
- Medium
- pen and black ink on original mount
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
- Accession no.
- 2013.253
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00012301
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