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- Title:
Ceyx and Alcyone
- Date:
- 1769
- Medium:
- Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm), Plate: 17 3/4 x 22 inches (45.1 x 55.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "384b (encircled) | 41344 (encircled)"; lower right: "(IR74/651)"
Lettered lower left: "R. Wilson pinxt. Londini"; lower left: "Cernit: erat conjux. Ille est exclamat: et una | Ora, comas, vestem lacerat: tendensque trementes | Ad Ceyca manus. Sic, o carissime conjux, | Sic, ad me, miserande, redis? ait. ____ Ovid. Met. XL. 725."; lower center: "CEYX and ALCYONE. | From an Original Picture in the Possession of Ryland & Bryer. | Publish'd July 31st. 1769, as the Act directs, by Wm.Woollett, in Green Street, Leicester Fields, & Ryland & Bryer, at the King's Arms, in Cornhill, London."; lower right: "She knows too much in knowing whom she sees; | Her Husband's Corps; at this 'she loudly shrieks, | 'Tis he, 'tis he, she cries, and tears her cheeks, | Her Hair, and Vest. ______ | And it is thus. O dearer than my Life, | Thus, thus returnst thou to thy longing Wife! Dryden."; lower right: "Wm. Woollett Sculpt."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.14567
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- (story of) Alcyone and Ceyx | cliffs | dead | husband | legend | mythology | religious and mythological subject | seascape | waves (natural events) | wife | winds
- Associated People:
- Alcyone
Ceyx - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:40375
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