Venus Bathing and Cupids
Venus Bathing and Cupids
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- Description
- Line engraving after original painting attributed to Andrea Sacchi once in the Common Parlour at Houghton. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- engraving
- Object Type
- Engraving
- date made
- 1775
- delineator
- Farington, Joseph
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- engraver
- Mason, James
- artist attribution
- Sacchi, Andrea
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- sheet: 32.8 cm x 40.5 cm; 12 29/32 in x 15 15/16 in
- plate: 30.4 cm x 38 cm; 11 31/32 in x 14 31/32 in
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.48
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.48
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- subject
- Mythology
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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