Acis and Galatea

Francesco Bartolozzi Italian
 After Giovanni Battista Cipriani Italian
 Publisher Francesco Bartolozzi Italian

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Ovid's Metamorphoses tells of the love between Acis, a Greek youth, and the sea-nymph Galatea. The myth tells how the Cyclops Polyphemos kills Acis out of jealousy and Galatea transforms him into an immortal river spirit. Here the couple sits in a shell drawn by dolphins and attended by putti.

Acis and Galatea, Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, Florence 1728–1815 Lisbon), Engraving and etching; third state of three

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