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
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.
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7406,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on