print;
title-page;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1867,0713.599-600
- Title
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Object: Ah spare me, Venus, let thy suppliant rest
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Object: The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis, D.D.
- Description
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Title-page and frontispiece, printed from a single plate.
frontispiece to left: a man lying on a couch, left hand at his forehead, looking up to left beseechingly at Venus, who hovers at left, with Cupid at her shoulder aiming an arrow and cooing doves to right.
titlepage to right: with a vignette showing Cupid lying asleep on rocks, two doves flying down to him with branches, bushes to right and a snake in the foreground.
after Uwins, published state.
Etching and stipple
- Production date
- 1800-1830 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 127 millimetres
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Width: 153 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1859,0709.818-9 for scratched-letter state.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Collected Works
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0713.599-600
