print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.1892
- Title
- Object: Venus blinding Cupid
- Description
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Venus sitting at a window, looking away to right as she blindfolds Cupid, who stands in front of her with his head in her lap, with a cherub watching over her shoulder on the right, while two women lean towards them, one holding a bow, the other a quiver; a view of mountains in the background; after Titian. 1769
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1769
- Dimensions
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Height: 399 millimetres
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Width: 488 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Drawing no. 117 in Strange's catalogue of his collection of paintings and drawings after paintings ('A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings... ', London, 1769) in which he offers the engraving at 10s.6d.
It is a pendant to Le Blanc no. 3 (Joseph and Potiphar's Wife).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.1892
