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The Rape of ProserpineEdward Burne-Jones
Date: c. 1883 - 84
Materials: Pencil
A picture on the subject of Proserpine's descent into the underworld was commissioned from Burne-Jones by Ruskin early in 1883. This is one of two elaborate pencil drawings matching the artist's description in a letter to Ruskin:
"I have designed what should look beautiful and awful if it were well done, Pluto going down with Proserpine into the earth, and a nice garden, a real one, all broken to bits, and fire breaking out amongst the anemones; and Pluto is an awful thing, shadowy and beautiful". |
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