print
- Museum number
- V,1.143
- Title
- Object: Sappho to Phoebus consecrates her lyre
- Description
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A woman with long, wavy hair loose over her shoulders, wearing a laurel wreath and a gown decorated with star-shaped flowers and a jewel at the breast, holding a lyre under her arm, directed to left and looking towards the viewer, in a rectangular frame; after Carlo Dolci. 1775, this state 1787.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1775
- Dimensions
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Height: 417 millimetres
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Width: 310 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Drawing no. 89 in Strange's catalogue of his collection of paintings and drawings after paintings ('A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings... ', London, 1769).
Companion to 'Raphael' (Le Blanc 54).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- V,1.143