drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.1496
- Description
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Polyphemus and Galatea, study for an engraving; seen in her chariot (a cockle-shell), with figures including one playing pipes, a Triton blowing a conch horn, Nereids, hippocampi and Amoretti above
Pen and black ink, with brown wash, heightened with white (mostly oxidised), indented for transfer
Verso: rubbed with black chalk
- Production date
- 17thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 409 millimetres
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Width: 521 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Roman XVIIc.
Not in Phillipps-Fenwick. From Phillipps MS. 34741. Possibly by a French hand.
Watermark twice encircled fleur-de-lys below V
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.1496
