Cupid and Psyche - Two Sketches for Psyche on Olympus offered the Cup of Immortality1865 Accession number: 1927P648.81 Pencil on paper. Bound. Width: 320 mm Height: 208 mm InformationFrom a bound volume containing 86 studies for illustrations to 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' made to accompany the poem in William Morris''The Earthly Paradise'.Burne-Jones has identified the gods and goddesses seated around the table at left. Jupiter is seated on the far left on his throne, with (anticlockwise): 'Ceres', 'Diana', three unidentified gods, 'Mars', 'Venus', 'Minerva', 'Vesta', and 'Juno'. On the right side of the drawing, winged Hebe holds the cup of immortality in her hands, walking past the faint outline of Mercury, while Psyche, with a crown of flowers on her head, holds hands with winged Cupid on the far right.
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