2-693-556 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Parnassus', 1886. Celebration of the Arts, and Poetry in particular, on Parnassus, the mythological mountain of Apollo and the Muses. Apollo offers the nectar of the gods to a poet, probably Homer, who is crowned with a laurel wreath by Calliope, the muse of epic poetry. Later drawing after Poussin's painting made c1630-1631, in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. From The Magazine of Art. [Cassell & Company, London, 1886]