print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1850,1109.160
- Description
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Scene in a room lit by fire and a candle on a table, at which a soldier and a young woman with a black veil are dining, a waiting woman standing behind her chair beside the fireplace at left; oval window on the wall behind; illustration to Petronius's 'The Ephesian Matron: or, Widow's Tears' ('Satyricon', ch.111-112), published in John Ogilby's 'Æsopic's: Or A Second Collection of Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations' (London: 1668); second state.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1665-1668
- Dimensions
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Height: 283 millimetres
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Width: 201 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1858,0724.165 for first state.
See New Hollstein (Hollar) 2005-2034 for Hollar's etchings for this publication.
See Comment of 1847,0713.14
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The Ephesian Matron: or, Widow's Tears
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Associated Title: Æsopic's: Or A Second Collection of Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations (1668)
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,1109.160