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Etched by Bourtois and engraved by Hulk.
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Title: Phaeton Expresses his Desire to Drive his Father's Chariot, from "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide..."
Series/Portfolio: Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, Traduction nouvelle Avec le texte latin, suivie d'une analyse de l'explication des Fables, de notes géographiques, historiques, mythologiques et critiques, Par M.G.T. Villenave; ornée de gravures d'après les dessins de MM. LeBarbier, Monsiau et Moreau. A Paris, Chez les Éditeurs, F. Gay Libraire, rue de la Harpe, Bureau de la Bible; Ch. Guestard, Avocat, rue Saint Germain-l'Auxerrois. De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné. MDCCCVI.
Artist:
Abraham Pietersz Hulk (Dutch, active late 18th–early 19th century)
Artist:
Philibert Boutrois (French, active 1775–1814)
Artist:
After Nicolas André Monsiaux (French, Paris 1754–1837 Paris)
Author:
Ovid (Roman, Sulmo 43 BCE–17 CE Tomis, Moesia)
Translator:
Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse de Villenave (French, Haute-Garonne 1762–1846 Paris)
Printer:
Pierre Didot l'ainé (French, 1761–1853)
Publisher:
F. Gay (French)
Publisher:
Ch. Guestard (French)
Date: 1806–22
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 8 11/16 in. (29.8 × 22 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945
Object Number: 45.8.3(24)
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