print
- Museum number
- 1877,1013.1252
- Title
- Object: Perdix, the nephew of Daedalus, transformed into a partridge
- Description
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Perdix, thrown off a tower by Daedalus, is turned into a bird by Minerva, who sits in the left foreground; lettered state of of illustration to Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1774-1778 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 207 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is a copy of a plate engraved by Louis Legrand after Eisen, see 1877,1013.1241 for comment.
For other impressions see 1875,0710.2762 and Y,4.218 and for an early proof see 1877,1013.1253.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Metamorphoses
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,1013.1252
