Silenus holding the infant Bacchus. Etching by R. Dalton, ca. 1744.

  • Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791.
Date:
[1744?]
Reference:
663781i
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About this work

Description

The sculpture known as "Silenus", as "Saturn about to devour his child" and by various other names, in the Villa Borghese, Rome, from 1638 and from 1815 in the Louvre: Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

[London] : [R. Dalton?], [1744?]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 53 x 31.3 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Silenus Bacchum infantem amplectens. R. Dalton del. et fecit

References note

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique, the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 306-307, no. 77 (no mention of this print)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 663781i

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Where to find it

  • Copy 1

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  • album of etchings by R. Dalton after ancient sculptures in Italy

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