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There was apparently another version of Paolo and Francesca, made for the Marquess of Landsdowne in 1837, reported as being by the artist's father, Sir Richard Westmacott II. The work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1838 was said to be marble. This relief shows affinities to the elder Westmacott's figures of Venus and Apollo in the Dream of Horace, 1823 (Petworth, NT 486415).
Title
Paolo and Francesca
Date
1838
Medium
plaster
Measurements
H 122 x W 75 x D (?) cm
Accession number
959561
Work type
Relief
Signature/marks description
bottom right of main panel: R. WESTMACOTT JUN. F. AUGT. 27TH 1838
Inscription description
inscription at the bottom of the plaster frame: 'PAOLO E FRANCESCA / Que duo che insieme vanno / E pajon si al vento esser leggieri / Nulla sperenza li conforta mai / Non che di posa ma di minor pena.' and, below and to the right: 'Dante Inferno Canto 5.' They are two non-consecutive couplets from the Inferno: Canto V:74–75 [those two, who go together / And seem upon the wind to be so light] and Canto V:44–45 [No hope doth comfort them for evermore, / Not of repose, but even of lesser pain] (Longfellow English edition).
National Trust, Nostell Priory
Doncaster Road, Nostell, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 1QE England
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