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Dido on her funeral pyre

Maker

(artist)
1611-1650

(etcher)
born 1655

(publisher)
1627-1691

Title

Dido on her funeral pyre

Date of Production

1650 - 1655

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 32.7 cm
Width: 45.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.188

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left of image & recto : : Petrus Testa Inventor et Pinxit

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right of image & recto : : Gio[colon] Jacomo Rossi formis Romae alla Pace

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : Gio.Caesar Testa Incid.; Extinctam famulae, ....

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