About This Artwork

North Italian
Mid-16th century

Rape of Proserpina, 1550/59

Pen and black ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on lunette-shaped cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash, squared in graphite, laid down on cream laid card
372 x 250 mm (max.)
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.923

McCullagh & Giles 409