print
- Museum number
- 1865,0610.1309
- Description
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A bronze mirror incised with winged Lasa seated on a stele; to her right is Aphrodite and the boy Aeneas (?); a laurel wreath around the design; the handle terminates in a deer's head; after an antique mirror then in the collection of Charles Townley, now at the British Museum (BM 1814,0704.916).
Engraving and stipple
- Production date
- 1768-1805
- Dimensions
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Height: 365 millimetres
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Width: 230 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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For the drawing see 2010,5006.1878.32; for a duplicate see 2010,5006.1878.34.
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See album (2010,5006.1878.1-67), consists of 67 prints and drawings, most of which are representations of objects which belonged to Charles Townley. The album is bound in brown leather and tooled in gold on spine "DRAWINGS AND PRINTS MADE FOR C. TOWNLEY. / BRONZES AND SCULPTURES / DEPT. OF G. & R. ANTIQUITIES".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,0610.1309
