From Hensleigh Wedgwood [21 March 1871]
By Benozzo Gozzoli
A picture in the campo santo at Pisa of Noahs daughter looking at her drunken father, called the vergognosa di campo santo, proverbialy used for a mock modest1
Footnotes
The picture of Noah’s daughter is part of a fresco in the Camposanto Monumentale, a cemetery in Pisa, ‘The vintage and drunkenness of Noah’, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli between 1469 and 1484. The figure appears at the far right of the fresco. ‘Vergognosa di campo santo’: the bashful girl of the holy field.
Summary
Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7406
- From
- Hensleigh Wedgwood
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Postmark
- MR 21 71
- Source of text
- DAR 195.1: 54
- Physical description
- Amem 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7406,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7406.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
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