Simeon Solomon

Sale, Sotheby's, London, October 24, 1978, lot 11, illustrated

London, Royal Academy, 1866, no. 555

Simon Reynolds, The Vision of Simeon Solomon, Catalapa Press, Ltd., 1984, p. 25

During the 1866 Royal Academy exhibition, Damon and Aglae inspired A.C. Swinburne to write the following verse:

'What even though fairer fingers of strange girls

Pass nestling through thy beautiful boy's curls

As mine did, or those curled lithe lips of thine

Meet theirs as these, all theirs come after mine;

And though I were not, though I be not best,

I have loved and love thee more than all the rest.'