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After Agostino Carracci (1557 - 1602), printmaker

Object name:print

Venus Punishing Profane Love

Series title: Lascivie

etching, c. 1590 - 1595

Published in

150 x 111 mm Platemark/Image

Reference:
Bartsch XVIII.109.135
De Grazia Bohlin 182 (copy)

Inscriptions:
37 (bottom left)

Provenance:
Francis Douce (L. 689) (on verso)
Bodleian Library

Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.; WA1863.5097

Comment:
A numbered copy in reverse after a print by Agostino Carracci, for which see WA1863.5096. See also note at WA1863.5085.

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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