Plate 33: a shepherd and his wife at left with sheep and cows, finding the infant Cyrus at left, suckled by a dog, from "The Most Capital Paintings in England"
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- Title: Plate 33: a shepherd and his wife at left with sheep and cows, finding the infant Cyrus at left, suckled by a dog, from "The Most Capital Paintings in England"
- Series/Portfolio: The Most Capital Paintings in England
- Artist and publisher: John Boydell (British, Dorrington, Shropshire 1720–1804 London)
- Artist: After Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (Italian, Genoa 1609–1664 Mantua)
- Date: 1767
- Medium: Etching and engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 16 3/8 × 20 1/16 in. (41.6 × 51 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1962
- Object Number: 62.602.563(2)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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