print;
book-illustration(verso)
- Museum number
- 1867,1012.226
- Title
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Object: Recto: Venus
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Series: Recto: Compositions from the Works Days and Theogony of Hesiod
- Description
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Proof before lettering; 1 female figure; 2 mermen; and 2 putti, both winged. 1816
Stipple
Verso: Proof before lettering of Sculpture, Plate III; illustration to Rees's "The Cyclopaedia" (London, 1802-20); reproductions of 3 sculptures; the finished plate had titles engraved beside each stippled image: "Venus de Medicis", "Apollo Belvedere" and "Laocoon". 1815
Stipple
- Production date
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1816 (recto)
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1815 (verso)
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres (recto)
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Height: 273 millimetres (verso)
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Width: 348 millimetres (recto)
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Width: 225 millimetres (verso)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For an impression of the finished plate for the recto see 1860,0310.1.27. For an impression of the finished plate for the verso see 1930,0129.4.
For commentary on "Compositions from the Works Days and Theogony of Hesiod", see 1860,0310.1.2.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Theogony (recto)
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Associated Title: The Cyclopaedia (verso)
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,1012.226
