print
- Museum number
- 1857,0520.143
- Description
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Deucalion and Pyrrha: the only survivors of the flood walking into the right foreground, throwing stones behind them in obedience to the oracle from Themis, which turn into people as they hit the ground, with a temple in the background to right; after Mortimer. 1784
Etching printed in brownish ink
- Production date
- 1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 207 millimetres (image)
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Height: 233 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 267 millimetres (image)
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Width: 273 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Acquisition notes
- 1857,0520.65 to 441 all came from lots 731 to 754 of the McIntosh sale which were all (with the exception of lot 752) bought for the BM for a total of £14 8s. The prices of the individual lots are given in the Bill Book, but were small and so not entered here.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1857,0520.143
