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The Silver Age, from "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide..."

1804
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  • Title: The Silver Age, 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: George Malbeste (French, Paris 1754–1843 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: 1804
  • 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(5)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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