print
- Museum number
- 1868,1212.90
- Title
- Object: Mercury and Hersè
- Description
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Italianate landscape with a procession led by Hersè approaching the figures reclining near ruins in the foreground, Mercury leaning against a fountain at right, a river with bridge beyond and town with temples at left, a plume of smoke in the distance; after J.M.W. Turner (Butlin & Joll 114); etched state 1842
Etching
- Production date
- 1842
- Dimensions
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Height: 627 millimetres
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Width: 487 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a later state before all letters see 1886,1127.92 and for the published print see 1948,0410.158.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Metamorphoses
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,1212.90