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Venus and Adonis hunting

Maker

(artist)
1600-1665

(engraver)
1600-1665

Title

Venus and Adonis hunting

Date of Production

1654

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.3 cm
Width: 32.9 cm

Accession Number

G.2009.AB.77

Mode of Acquisition

Courtauld Institute Book Library, transfer, 2009 (May)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

previous owner : Blunt, Anthony (Professor) & Courtauld Institute Book Library

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin left & recto : / 4 / Venus exerse Adonis a chose de peu et luy destournoit / dentreprendre chose digne dhonneur // Ainsi ceux qui se nourissent parmy la volupte ne sont pont capable daucune Vertu / Herman Van Swanevelt fecit et Excudit Cum previlegio Regis 1654 //

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