Rape of Proserpina

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Unknown Northern Italian

Title

Rape of Proserpina

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1550–1559

Medium

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

Dimensions

37.2 × 25 cm (14 11/16 × 9 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.923

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