J. C. Varrall - Niobe (British Museum), Richard Wilson, 1836

Print by john charles varrall, after richard wilson's painting, published by jones & co. British museum. "niobe kneeling in a clearing below rocks in an overcast landscape, her arm around her youngest daughter, looking up and defying latona, who sits in clouds in upper left, watching her son apollo avenge her for the theban queen's boast that she was richer in her fourteen children than the goddess in her two; he draws his bow to strike down another of the children, eight of whom are grouped near their mother, dead, grieving and dying, while a ninth tries, in vain, to flee on horseback across a bridge to left; after a painting by wilson, from a series illustrating the collection of the national gallery. 1836 etching and engraving". Date: 1836.