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Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743, British, Diana and Acteon, 1705
- Title:
Diana and Acteon
- Date:
- 1705
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 5/8 × 15 3/4 inches (29.5 × 40 cm), Plate: 9 7/8 × 13 3/4 inches (25.1 × 34.9 cm), Image: 9 13/16 × 13 11/16 inches (24.9 × 34.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "John Smith"; lower left: "#35"
Lettered, lower right: "P. Berchet in. et pinx. J. Smith fec. et ex."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1254
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- antlers | arch | bathing | bow | goddess | hunter | hunting dogs | lake | man | metamorphoses of male persons into mammals | mountain | nudes | nymphs | punishment | quiver | religious and mythological subject | rocks | spear | stag | trees
- Associated People:
- Diana
Actaeon - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:23102
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Fancy Pieces - Genre Mezzotints by Robert Robinson & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1994-11-19 - 1995-01-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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