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Aurora and Cephalus

Maker

After
(artist)
1560-1609

(engraver)
died 1692

(publisher)
1627-1691

Title

Aurora and Cephalus

Date of Production

(c.) 1674

Medium

printed in black
etching and engraving

Dimensions

Height: 27.8 cm
Width: 44.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7303.10

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: 9 / Amplexus; remoratur iter, praenuncia Solis / Immemor et lucis, fuluique oblita diei. / Petrus Aquila delin. et sculp. //

Inscription: Axe trahit roseo CEPHALVM, TITONE relicto, / Inuitumque AVRORA sinu rapit: ille recusat / Annibal Carraccius pinx. in AEdibus Farnesianis. //

Inscription: Io. Iacob. de Rubeis formis Romae ad Templ. S. Mariae de Pace cum Priu S. Pont. //

Inscription: An. CARRACCI / Palazzo Farnese / Rome //

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