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Mythology & Putti

    AGOSTINO DEI MUSI (C. 1490-AFTER 1536)

    Eros in the Sea

    c.1515-20

    Engraving | 19.1 x 22.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851772

    An engraving after a design traditionally reputed to by by Raphael, and now regarded as by his school (Perino del Vaga?). First state. Signed with engraver's monogram on the shell at lower right: A.V. Lettered with 8 lines of verse below image.

    • Creator(s)

      Agostino dei Musi (c. 1490-after 1536) (engraver)

      After a work by the school of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    • 19.1 x 22.9 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Language, Linguistics and Literature
        • Literature
          • Fiction
            • Tales & legends
              • Myths
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Religions of antiquity
            • Classical mythology
              • Venus (mythology)
              • Cupid
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p.245, no.V.2 (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)

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