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Psyche is set the task of collecting the Golden Fleece from Venus' flocks and is helped by a voice from the reeds Cupid and Psyche in Morris's 'The Earthly Paradise'
Printmaker:
Morris, William
Draughtsman:
Burne-Jones, Edward
(After)
Image is of whole sheet, printed with P.12178-R(a).
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1927) by Holliday, J. R.
19th Century
Circa
1866
-
Circa
1888
The thirty-seventh block in the series (numbers corresponding to a list copied from one written by William Morris). Printed with the forty-second block on a single sheet: see P.12178-R(a) for the other block. The blocks were cut c.1868-8, but these proofs were probably printed in the 1880s. Sheet has two "Primrose" watermarks.
Accession number: P.12178-R(b)
Primary reference Number: 176182
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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