print
- Museum number
- X,6.111
- Title
- Object: Pygmalion
- Description
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Pygmalion, wearing a loose robe, standing before his statue of a nude female, around which is a garland; in attendance, a seated female figure holding a box; sculpting implements on the ground; classical buildings, columns, and statues, and a curtain in the foreground.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1680-1725
- Dimensions
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Height: 173 millimetres
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Width: 126 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- States
(i) lettered with the title and 'Warner Pinxit. // B Lens exc.'
(ii) publisher's name erased
Other impressions: Edinburgh (i); Yale CBA (i)
Nicholas Stogdon notes that this impression is printed in sea-green like a Kirkall. He compares it to a mezzotint of Hagar and Ishmael by Bernard Lens II which Kirkall republished in sea-green: see X,6.88. The register number suggests that it might have formed part of Hans Sloane's collection of Kirkall's work.
The artist Warner is presumably Joseph Werner, after whom another mezzotint of the Nativity was made at the same period (see 1868,1114.490).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- X,6.111
