Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd, and Represented in Figures: An Essay to the Translation of Virgil's Æneis.
Artwork Details
- Title: Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd, and Represented in Figures: An Essay to the Translation of Virgil's Æneis.
- Author: Ovid (Roman, Sulmo 43 BCE–17 CE Tomis, Moesia)
- Author: Virgil (Roman, Andes 70 BCE–19 BCE Brundisium)
- Translator: George Sandys (British, Bishopthorpe 1578–1644 Kent)
- Engraver: Salomon Savery (Dutch, 1594–1678)
- Designer: After Franz Cleyn (German, Rostock 1582–1658 London)
- Publisher: John Lichfield (Oxford)
- Printer: Printed London by William Stansby (British, baptised Exeter 1572–1638 London (?))
- Dedicatee: Charles I, King of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (British, Dunfermline, Scotland 1600–1649 London)
- Date: 1632
- Medium: Illustrations: engraving
- Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 8 15/16 x 2 1/16 in. (33.3 x 22.7 x 5.2 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970
- Object Number: 1970.636.2
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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