The Wine of Circe - Study for the Upper Part of Circe1866 – 1869 Accession number: 1904P131 Pencil and red-brown chalk on cream paper. Width: 181 mm Height: 96 mm InformationThis is a study for a watercolour, for which Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote a short poem. The scene shows Circe leaning forward in the act of pouring a magic potion into an amphora, which awaits the arrival of Odysseus and his companions.
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