"Dido, supported on a pyre by a woman wearing a veil and diadem, fainting with grief, a dagger at her side, an old woman standing behind to left and weeping women gathered on the right; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Three lines of text below title: Omnis et una delapsus calor, atq: in ventos vita recessit. Virg. IV, 705. The struggling soul was loos'd & life dissolv'd in air. Dryden., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 43 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1780, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
