The apple chosen by Discord and claimed at the bridal feast was that eventually awarded by Paris. 1807 but may well, because of the relationship to this picture exhibited early in 1806, have been begun a year or two earlier (XCVII–83 and 83 verso). There are also versions of the first two lines in the ‘Windsor, Eaton’ sketchbook, which is usually dated c. Love felt the wound and Troy's foundations shook.' Of future woes: and then her choice preferred With vengfull pleasure pleas'd the Goddess heard Proffered the fatal fruit and fear'd thy wrathful ire Mad with neglect and envious of the fair,įierce as the noxious blast thou cleav'd the skiesĪnd sought the hesperian Garden's golden prize.Īw'd by the presence slumberd at his post Unask'd at Psyche's bridal feast to share, No verses were included in the catalogue of this the first exhibition of the British Institution, but there is a related ‘Ode to Discord’ in the Verse Notebook belonging to C.W.M. Turner seems to have detached the motif from its particular locality and, as has been pointed out by Lawrence Gowing in an unpublished lecture, transformed the detail of a clump of trees on the spur into the guardian Dragon. It also appears in the large unfinished watercolour of, perhaps, The Great St. 61), and in The Vision of Jacob's Ladder, perhaps begun at about this time but completely reworked later (No. The prominent mountainous spur in the background also appears, with slight modifications, in Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen, shown at the R.A. ![]() There are a number of sketches with some relation to the picture in the ‘Hesperides’ (1) sketchbook, though none for the whole composition (XCIII-1, 3 (the same background, but the figures seem to be for another subject), 3 verso (the dragon, again with different figures), 8–10). 321 n.37 Rothenstein and Butlin 1964, pp. Farington Diary 16 February and 5 April 1806 Ruskin 18 (1903–12, xiii, pp. Turner Bequest 1856 (66, ‘The Garden of the Hesperides’ 7'2" × 5'1") transferred to the Tate Gallery 1910.Įxh. The Goddess of Discord choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides Exh. Heracles successfully managed to get the apples from the garden and bring them back to Eurystheus.57. One of them was to steal the apples from the Garden of Hesperides. Eurystheus, not counting the slaying of the Lernaean Hydra nor the cleaning of the Augean stables, gave two extra tasks to Heracles. The Hesperides and their Garden were also one of the tasks that were given during the Labours of Heracles. The apple was then given by Paris, prince of Troy, to Aphrodite, who promised to give him Helen as his wife, thus triggering the events of the Trojan War. Not trusting the Hesperides to guard the apple trees on their own, Hera also placed a hundred headed dragon named Ladon that never slept.Ī golden apple that was taken from the Garden of the Hesperides was what eventually caused the Trojan War Eris, goddess of strife, managed to steal an apple from the garden, inscribed the words "To the fairest" and threw it amidst the goddesses that attended at a wedding she was not invited to. The golden apples were believed to give immortality to anyone who consumed them. The so called Garden of the Hesperides belonged to the goddess Hera, in which there was a grove of apple trees that bore golden apples. They were responsible of taking care of a garden in the western end of the world, near the Atlas mountains in Africa. It was usually thought that there were three Hesperides, although some sources name four or seven. ![]() Different sources name different parents for the Hesperides they may have been daughters of the Titans Atlas and Hesperis Erebus and Nyx Nyx alone Phorcys and Ceto or of Hesperus. The Hesperides in Greek mythology were the nymphs of the sunset.
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