- Artist
- Sir Edwin Henry Landseer 1802–1873
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 889 × 1689 mm
frame: 1207 × 2015 × 140 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Jacob Bell 1859
- Reference
- N00605
Display caption
In 1843 Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, commissioned a number of painters to decorate a small garden pavilion in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The artists were to select scenes from the masque Comus by the seventeenth-century poet John Milton, and subjects from the work of the Romantic novelist and poet Walter Scott. Like Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery (see Lear and Cordelia displayed above) it was hoped that the project would help encourage British history painting.
This is Edwin Landseer's preliminary
sketch, showing the rout of Comus and his company of revellers. The pavilion was pulled down in 1928.
Gallery label, September 2004
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