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John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818, British, Annabella, Lady Blake, as Juno, Receiving the Cestus from Venus, 1771
- Title:
Annabella, Lady Blake, as Juno, Receiving the Cestus from Venus
- Additional Title(s):
Lady Annabella, Boscawen
Miss Annabella Bunbury
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
- Date:
- 1771
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 25 1/8 × 16 7/8 inches (63.8 × 42.9 cm), Plate: 24 3/8 × 15 15/16 inches (61.9 × 40.5 cm), Image: 24 1/4 × 15 15/16 inches (61.6 × 40.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Vol. P.42"
Watermark
Lettered, lower left: "Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinxt."; letered, lower center: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Febry 11.1771, by J.Dixon in Kempbs Row near Chelsea Bridge and Sold by A.Dury in Dukes Court St. Martins Lane"; lettered, lower right: "J.Dixon Fecit"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.9799
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- beads | braid | cestus | cloud | curls | dove | nude | offering | peacock (bird) | portrait | religious and mythological subject | robe | sandal | Venus lending her girdle | water
- Associated People:
- Juno
Venus
Boscawen, Lady Annabella (1745–1841), British socialite - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:32240
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