Print View for Pandora, whom the assembled Gods / endowed with all their gifts. / Formed by Vulcan, who is contemplating / his work, she is dressed by the Graces, / and presented by Minerva with a Veil / and Cestus;- near her stands Pitho, / (the Goddess of Persuasion) - on the left / are Phoebus, Diana, Mars, Venus, & / Cupid; - on the right, Juno, Cybele, / and Bacchus; - in the midst Jupiter, / attended by Victory, and Nemesis, holds / the fatal Vase, fraught with so much / mischief to Mankind. Iris is hovering / in the sky admiring, and Mercury, / putting on his Talaria prepares to conduct / the beautiful Snare to "th' unwiser Son of Japhet".

Henry Howard RA (1769 - 1847)

Pandora, whom the assembled Gods / endowed with all their gifts. / Formed by Vulcan, who is contemplating / his work, she is dressed by the Graces, / and presented by Minerva with a Veil / and Cestus;- near her stands Pitho, / (the Goddess of Persuasion) - on the left / are Phoebus, Diana, Mars, Venus, & / Cupid; - on the right, Juno, Cybele, / and Bacchus; - in the midst Jupiter, / attended by Victory, and Nemesis, holds / the fatal Vase, fraught with so much / mischief to Mankind. Iris is hovering / in the sky admiring, and Mercury, / putting on his Talaria prepares to conduct / the beautiful Snare to "th' unwiser Son of Japhet".

1834

Oil on mahogany panel

Height: 82cm
Width: 249cm

Inscription: None

Museum number: P2

On display: Library-Dining Room - ceiling

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