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Antonio Tempesta Italian
Publisher Willem Jansz. Dutch
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Title: Proserpina Turning Ascalaphus into an Owl (Ascalaphus a proserpina in bubonem mutatur), plate 49 from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid" (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum)
Series/Portfolio: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Artist:
Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 1555–1630 Rome)
Publisher:
Willem Jansz. (Dutch, active Amsterdam ?1605–20)
Date: Published after 1606
Medium: Etching
Dimensions:
sheet: 6 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (17.5 x 20 cm)
plate: 5 7/8 x 4 1/2 in. (15 x 11.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of S. Paul Jones, 1935
Object Number: 35.6(50)
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