#stone steps

[prettypretender]

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Danaides

Artist John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917)

Date: 1906

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland

Description

Painting illustrating the Greek mythological story of the fifty daughters of King Danaus, who were condemned to fill a leaking, or bottomless, vessel with water in Hades for killing their husbands on their wedding night.

[illustratus]

Le Printemps (Springtime) by Eugène Bidau

[harkthorn]

Little dragon sketch, in the Cristal Bic pen that I hate (too big a nib, clumpy ink)

Imagining that the dragon is the same colour as the stones-grey with patches of green, white, etc to look like moss/lichen/etc. So it's hard to tell if it's a statue or not

-3393

[animaallure]

May 2025

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[kay-pholklore]

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