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Object Type
print
Museum number
1868,0612.2197
Title
Object:
Venus Anadyomene
Description
A young woman standing on the sea-shore partially shrouded in clouds, holding her long hair above her head in both hands, looking left, cupid sitting on a cloud behind her smiling mischievously at the viewer, rearing horses in the water behind her on the right and cooing doves on the cloud to the left. 1772 Mezzotint
Producer name
Print made by:
Valentine Green
After:
James Barry
Published by:
John Boydell
School/style
British
Production date
1772
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
640 millimetres
Width:
395 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(146)
Whitman 1902 / British Mezzotinters: Valentine Green
(173.I)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
2022-2023 20 Sep- 08 Jan, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Duels and Duets: Artistic rivalry in the Rennaissance and Baroque
Subjects
classical mythology
classical deity
Associated names
Representation of:
Aphrodite/Venus
Illustration to:
Lucretius
Acquisition name
Donated by:
James Hughes Anderdon
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Thomas Haviland Burke
(Christie and Manson; 26.vi.1852/1387*)
Acquisition date
1868
Acquisition notes
See for the provenance from Haviland Burke, 1868,0612.2136
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1868,0612.2197
Conservation
Mount
: 01 Jun 2022
Treatment
: 9/5/2022