The Three Statues of Aegina - Design for the Wood Engraving1861 Accession number: 1906P912 Pencil on paper. Width: 102 mm Height: 147 mm InformationDesign for an illustration, engraved by Joseph Swain, to accompany a poem by Walter Thornbury in Once a Week (26 October 1861, p. 491). The poem tells the tale of 'the god Pluto (Death) calling Chiron away from the scene of his acclaim for his statue of Minevra. He had not won approval for his earlier statues of pan and Venus, but all three sculptures will henceforward 'guard his tomb' (Betty Elzea, 'Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné,' p. 206).
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