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After Master of the Die (active 1530 -1560), printmaker
FrancescoVillamena (c. 1564 - 1624), printmaker
After Michiel Coxcie (1499 - 1592), designer
Antonio Salamanca (1478 - 1562), publisher
Object name:print
Psyche opens the fateful box
Series title: The Fable of Psyche
engraving, c.1531 - 1532
Published in
190 x 230 mm Sheet
Reference:
Bartsch XV.222.66 (ii)
Inscriptions:
28 (burnished out) / 28 / Dato
Provenance:
Francis Douce (L. 689) (on verso)
Bodleian Library
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.; WA1863.5279
Comment:
Plate twenty-eight in a series depicting the Fable of Psyche from Apuleius's 'Golden Ass'. According to Bartsch, this is a second state retouched by Francesco Villamena; Bartsch also thought thatthe series was engraved after Raphael's designs. For a discussion of the series, see Massari, S., Prosperi Valenti Rondin
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