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After Master of the Die (active 1530 -1560), printmaker
After Michiel Coxcie (1499 - 1592), designer
Object name:print
The gods celebrating the wedding of Psyche and Cupid
Series title: The Fable of Psyche
engraving, 1531 - 1532
Published in
196 x 221 mm Sheet
Reference:
Bartsch XV.223.69 (copy in reverse)
Inscriptions:
Fansi le nozze splendide, et reali [
Provenance:
Francis Douce (L. 689) (on verso)
Bodleian Library
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.; WA1863.5288
Comment:
A copy after plate thirty-one in a series depicting the Fable of Psyche from Apuleius's 'Golden Ass'. For a discussion of the series, see Massari, S., Prosperi Valenti Rondin
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