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Print made by Charles Phillips, 1737– after 1783, Venus and Cupid, 1766
- Title:
Venus and Cupid
- Date:
- 1766
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 20 1/16 × 14 3/16 inches (51 × 36 cm), Image: 18 5/8 × 14 inches (47.3 × 35.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "first proof"; inscribed in blue crayon, verso, lower left: "5/-"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "D | 451"
Watermark
Lettered, lower left: "F. Salviata pinxt."; lettered, lower right: "C. Phillips fecit."; lettered, lower center: "J. Boydell Exct 1766."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1337
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- buildings | child | cloth | crown | earring | goddess | holding | mother | nudes | pearls | quiver | religious and mythological subject | rocks | smiling | wings
- Associated People:
- Venus
Cupid - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:23186
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