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After Master of the Die (active 1530 -1560), printmaker
After Michiel Coxcie (1499 - 1592), designer
Object name:print
Juno sending Psyche away
Series title: The Fable of Psyche
engraving, c. 1531 - 1532
Published in
198 x 224 mm Sheet
Reference:
Bartsch XV.219.58 (copy in reverse)
Inscriptions:
Dunque arrivata al tempio de giunone [
Provenance:
Francis Douce (L. 689) (on verso)
Bodleian Library
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.; WA1863.5262
Comment:
A copy after plate twenty from a series depicting the Fable of Psyche from Apuleius's 'Golden Ass'. For the original impression, see WA1863.5261.
Bartsch: Adam Von Bartsch, Le Peintre Graveur, 21 vols (Vienna: J. von Degen, 1803-1821)
L.: Frits Lugt, Les marques de collection de dessins and d'estampes [...], 2 vols (Amesterdam, Vereenigde Drukkerijen, 1921-1956)
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