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Object Type: print
Museum number: V,6.65
Description: Cybele at left riding her chariot being drawn by two lions to the right, her left foot rests on a globe, nestling in her chariot are an echnida, rabbit, eagle etc Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Master of the Die; After: Baldassare Peruzzi; Published by: Antonio Salamanca
School/style: Italian
Production date: 1530-1560
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 247 millimetres; Width: 178 millimetres
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Curator's comments: A preparatory drawing by Peruzzi is in the BM: see 1880,0508.82. See the comment on it by Pouncey and Gere cat.243.
Bibliographic references: Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XV.195.18)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Cybele
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane (his name stamped on the mount)
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: V,6.65

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