print;
title-page;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1867,0713.656-657
- Title
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Object: Then Kiss'd the fair (his Kisses warmer grow Than such as women on their sex bestow)
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Object: Ovids Metamorphoses Translated into English Verse: by Various Authors
- Description
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Title-page and frontispiece, printed from a single plate.
frontispiece to left: Pomona kneeling by a tall fountain, holding a scythe, looking over her shoulder to right at Vertumnis, who embraces her, dressed as an old woman.
titlepage to right: with a vignette showing Hermaphroditus dipping a toe into a river, holding his cloak billowing behind him, observed by Salmacis from the forest in the background to right.
Etching and stipple
- Production date
- 1800-1830 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 138 millimetres
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Width: 148 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Metamorphoses
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0713.656-657
