The King of the Gate
Date1862
Artist
Frederick Sandys
(English painter, illustrator, and draftsman, 1829–1904)
Artist
Joseph Swain
(British engraver, 1820–1909)
Illustration Citation"The King at the Gate," by Walter Thornbary, in Once a Week, vol. VI, March 15, 1862, p. 322.
MediumWood engraving
Dimensions8 x 6 7/8 in. (20.3 x 17.5 cm)
Credit LineSamuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Object number1935-147
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Label TextFrederick Sandys was one of the most gifted illustrators of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. This illustration accompanied a poem of the same title in which Zeus suddenly appears before the king and court of an unidentified country. The following lines describe the scene depicted:‘Tis Zeus, they cried, “the round world’s sire.”
That moment, through the jostling crowd
Of kneeling suitors, a god-like man
Strode…
