Proserpina, pluto and sleep are shown at right seated upon a platform, with the fates standing behind them. Proserpina extends a branch toward a girls lead to her by death, a bearded man with a bat upon his head and his name “vs” upon his right sleeve. A man supporting a dead woman comes from left; a boy clings to him. Others come to perform sacrifices. The setting is the hall of the underworld, lighted by lamps. Other parts of the underworld with a wheel of torture are shown in the background. Date: circa 1820. Dimensions: Mat: 71.2 x 91.6 cm (28 1/16 x 36 1/16 in.); ; 51 x 78 cm (20 1/16 x 30 11/16 in.). Medium: brush and brown wash, graphite on paper, pen and black ink. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Hades; Persephone in the Underworld (Offering to Proserpine), ca. 1820 (CH 18122835)
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