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Lamia: P.4825-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Lamia

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco
Publisher: Diemar, Emanuel Mathias
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (After)

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

Production date: AD 1786

Note

State II/V, cut impression

School or Style

Italian

Techniques used in production

Stipple
Etching

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Lamia
  • Location: Plate lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Title
  • Text: Beauty and grace with sudden charms can bind / The wanding sense, and calm the troubled mind. / Alike her singing and her silence move, / Whose voice is music, & whose looks are love
  • Location: Plate lower centre left and right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.4825-R
Primary reference Number: 130159
Vesme/Calabi: 435

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 2 March 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Lamia" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/130159 Accessed: 2024-05-03 09:16:13

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