The Goddess of Discord in the Garden of the Hesperides, from "lllustrated London News"
Engraver Henry Linton British
After an intermediary drawing by Edmond Morin French
After Joseph Mallord William Turner British
Not on view
This wood engraving reproduces a painting of 1806 by J.M.W. Turner, now at Tate Britain. The Goddess of Discord has entered the Garden of the Hesperides (in Greek myth, the Hesperides were daughters of the Evening Star Herperus, and lived at the western edge of the world, guarding golden fruits that grant immortality). In this image, a nymph gives apples to a cloaked figure who will use their powers for ill (one is later given to Paris, who awards it to Aphrodite and precipitates the Trojan War). A guardian dragon lying on a distant cliff has failed to alert the nymphs to the danger.
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