![]() ![]() ![]() Tho' two the houses, yet the roof was one.Ī chink was left, the cement unobserv'd to shrink Rais'd walls of brick magnificently great. In Babylon where first her queen, for state, ![]() Thisbe is depicted full-length dressed in robes and an amulet, leaning to hear the whispers of Pyramus through the chink in the wall.' Long took his subject from Ensden's translation of Ovid quoted in the Christie's sale catalogue that accompanied the work in 1908 When describing the larger earlier work, Mark Bills observes 'Long's first painting of Thisbe uses his knowledge of ancient Babylon to depict her seated on a wall of Babylonian wall painting. He would later paint a second version of this subject in 1884. This work is Edwin Long's reduced replica of his Babylonian Thisbe which was painted in the same year. ![]()
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