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  • 'The Death of Sigismonda'
  • 'Medea Contemplating the Murder of her Children'
  • 'Atossa's Dream'
  • 'The Ghost of Darius appearing to Atossa'
  • 'Prometheus Bound'
  • 'The Descent of Odin'
  • 'Eurydice Fleeing from Aristaeus'
  • 'Eurydice Floating into Hell'
  • 'Orpheus and Eurydice'
  • 'The Infant Shakespeare Nursed by Tragedy and Comedy'
  • 'Psyche Blown by Zephyr'
  • 'Psyche, Deposited by Zephyr, is Seen by Cupid'
  • 'Psyche Supplicating Juno'
  • 'Psyche before Venus'
  • 'Venus orders Psyche to fetch the Waters of the Styx'
  • 'Psyche by the Waters of the Styx'
  • 'Cupid Awakens Psyche'
  • 'Nature Unveiling Herself to the Infant Shakespeare'
  • George Romney's cartoons - Walker collection

'Psyche before Venus'

A woman in classical dress kneels on the floor before a standing woman

This cartoon stands in relation to the previous one as the first two do to each other. Again, the story has moved forward very little. Juno has told Psyche that she must accept her punishment from Venus. The impression is that Romney conceived the two works as pendants - perhaps anticipating them forming a double-page spread in Hayley's translation.

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