Needle work picture of Dido and Aeneas
Dido, Queen of Carthage was basically really not at all pleased when Aeneas decided to go off again, this shows them discussing it! The story told in Virgil’s Aeneid, and again by Purcell in the form of one of the earliest English language operas - the theme of someone sailing off was unsurprisingly quite popular in a seafaring nation! Neat Georgian Hogarth frame reused for this early 19th c needlework. I love the smoking urn bottom right!
31.5cm h x 26cm w
Dido, Queen of Carthage was basically really not at all pleased when Aeneas decided to go off again, this shows them discussing it! The story told in Virgil’s Aeneid, and again by Purcell in the form of one of the earliest English language operas - the theme of someone sailing off was unsurprisingly quite popular in a seafaring nation! Neat Georgian Hogarth frame reused for this early 19th c needlework. I love the smoking urn bottom right!
31.5cm h x 26cm w
Dido, Queen of Carthage was basically really not at all pleased when Aeneas decided to go off again, this shows them discussing it! The story told in Virgil’s Aeneid, and again by Purcell in the form of one of the earliest English language operas - the theme of someone sailing off was unsurprisingly quite popular in a seafaring nation! Neat Georgian Hogarth frame reused for this early 19th c needlework. I love the smoking urn bottom right!
31.5cm h x 26cm w