print
- Museum number
- V,6.68
- Title
- Series: The story of Apollo and Daphne
- Description
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Apollo standing naked at left shooting a python at right with an arrow, above left are the muses on a mound and at right on a cloud Cupid approached Apollo, from a series of four
Engraving
- Production date
- 1530-1560
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres
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Width: 177 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the retouched state with no text see Ii,5.99.
This print was issued as a black and white facsimile by the British Museum in 'Reproductions of Prints in the British Museum', New Series Part IV (Italian Prints, Sixteenth Century), Published by the Trustees in 1892, where it was number III and described there as 'Master of the Die. Apollo & the Python.'; see 1896,01.25.26.3 (Shelfmark 245*.b.18).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- V,6.68
