DALZIEL BROTHERS (wood-engraver), Frederick SANDYS (draughtsman)
Cleopatra
(1886)
illustration facing p. 331 for Cleopatra by Algernon Swinburne in The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 14 (July–December), published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, September 1866

Medium
wood-engraving

Measurements
17.6 × 11.0 cm (image) 18.0 × 11.2 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Percival Serle, 1952

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: AFS (monogram)
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: DALZIEL

Accession Number
2929.1-4

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)
History and Legend Human Figures Literary and Text

Subjects (specific)
Cleopatra illustrations (layout features) musicians pearl (animal material) queens (people) rulers (people) servants women (female humans)

Movements
Pre-Raphaelite Victorian