The Golden Bough (J. M. W. Turner)
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The Golden Bough[1] is a painting by J. M. W. Turner.
- In 1834 Turner exhibited two fanciful pictures, ... [The Golden Bough was] based on the myth that Lake Avernus was the overflowing of Acheron, and one of the entrances to Hades, and that a bough plucked from the tree of Proserpine would enable mortals to enter the dominions of Pluto. It was called The Golden Bough], and a quotation from " The Fallacies of Hope" was sent with it; but the Council at the Academy, for some reason, suppressed the lines, though they left the name of the poem, which should have gone at the foot. The real Lake Avernus is almost completely circular, for it is, in fact, the crater of an extinct volcano. This shape did not take Turner's fancy, and he - has altered it a good deal, putting in a temple and the conventional pine-tree, beneath which are reclining figures. On the left is another classic person with a sickle, holding the golden bough, and standing by a pool. --William Lionel Wyllie
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