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Augustus John (1878 - 1961)<BR><BR>Lot 1226<BR>Title: Pyramus and Thisbe (s.6104)<BR>Medium: Original drypoint etching, 1906, second, and published, state of two states, signed by the artist in pencil<BR>Edition 9/25<BR>Size : 5 1/8 x 4 ins<BR>Reference: Campbell Dodgson 91<BR>Note: The story of Pyramus and Thisbe is well known to us all thanks to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream" , but its origins go back a long way. The myth of Pyramus and Thisbe is attributed to the ancient Greeks, although the couple lived in Babylon, in adjacent houses. Their parents didn't let them meet, but they could talk to each other through a hole in the connecting wall. They decided to run off one night and elope, meeting at the first Mulberry bush outside the city. As Thisbe was waiting, a lioness walked by with her jaws covered in blood from a previous kill that day. Thisbe was frightened and ran to the nearest cave. Soon after, Pyramus came by and found the cloak that he had given to her covered in blood and torn to pieces, with the footprints of the lioness left behind. Thinking that his love had been killed by a hungry lion, he unsheathed his sword and stabbed himself in the heart. Thisbe returned and found her love lying on the ground next to the blood-covered Mulberry bush with his sword impaling his chest. The dying Pyramus told her what had happened; she took the sword and stabbed herself, and the couple died together. This is why the berries on the Mulberry bush are red, instead of their original white, in commemoration of the two young lovers and their great sacrifice. The story was recorded by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses written about 1AD. The 14th century saw a revival in its popularity: Petrarch recorded the story in 1340, Boccaccio in 1342, and Chaucer wrote The Legend of Thisbe in 1386. Shakespeare, of course, is the most famous teller of the story (1596). <BR>Condition: good"
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