La Mort de Didon (The Death of Dido), Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave, Scenes of people in classical dress illustrating a story from Virgil's Aeneid that inspired two operas in eighteenth-century France. Aeneas leaves Troy in flames carrying his father Anchises in his arms, Aeneas abandons Dido who then kills herself, and Aeneas kills Turmus. In red on white., Nantes, France, ca. 1790, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile, Textile

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