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Vala, Hyle and Skofeld
(c. 1820)
plate 51 from Jerusalem (c. 1804)–(c. 1820)
Medium
relief etching and white-line etching printed in orange ink, and finished with watercolour, pen and ink and gold paint
Measurements
16.0 × 22.2 cm (image and plate) 17.5 × 23.8 cm (border) 27.8 × 33.6 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bentley 75.51, pp. 249, 264; Bindman 530; Butlin 579; Butlin & Gott 47
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: inv & s / WB
inscribed (vertically) in pen and red ink (below image) l.r.: : 51
inscribed (diagonally) in pencil on reverse l.r.: The Three Despondent / Persons
Accession Number
1026-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Literary and Text Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
chains (object genres) flames illustrations (layout features) literary characters melancholy men (male humans) poems shackles
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles)