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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1978,U.781.14
Description
Plate 61: Cupid, Death and Reputation. The three figures standing next to each other and holding a cup, a table with a jug and a fourth cup to the right, city walls and a funeral procession through a city gate in right background; large empty lower margin; soiled plate; illustration to John Ogilby's "The Fables of Aesop" (London: 1665) Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Dirk Stoop
Published by:
John Ogilby
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1665
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
259 millimetres
Width:
174 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is one from a series of twenty-four, for comment see S.3112. The paper is brownish and brittle.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(55)
Weigel 1843 / Suppléments au Peintre-Graveur de Adam Bartsch
(162.46)
Dutuit 1881-5 / Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes
(VI.328.46)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
allegory/personification
classical deity
Associated names
Illustration to:
John Ogilby
Representation of:
Eros/Cupid
Representation of:
Death
Associated titles
Associated Title:
The Fables of Aesop
(London, 1665)
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Eliza Cruikshank
(L.470)
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
George Cruikshank
Acquisition date
1891
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1978,U.781.14
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
1891,1116.179