print
- Museum number
- 1874,0711.1878
- Title
- Series: Twelve mythological women
- Description
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Plate 8: Scylla; whole-length figure, frontal, the head in profile to left, holding a lock of hair in her right hand; standing in a landscape; from a series of twelve engravings of mythological women in elaborate strapwork borders.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1530-1562
- Dimensions
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Height: 111 millimetres
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Width: 84 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Scylla, daughter of Nisus of Megara, killed her father by cutting off a lock of his hair; she should not be confused with Scylla, the nymph who was turned into a sea-monster by Circe who was jealous that Glaucus had fallen in love with her.
BM has a complete set of the series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0711.1878