The Cumaean Sibyl leads Aeneas to the underworld: they encounter Cerberus. Engraving by M. Pool after A. Houbraken.

  • Houbraken, Arnold, 1660-1719.
Date:
[between 1700? and 1732?]
Reference:
3017372i
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Description

An episode described in Virgil's Aeneid, book VI. Aeneas holds the golden bough

Publication/Creation

[The Netherlands] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700? and 1732?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 11.1 x 14.4 cm

Contributors

Lettering

A. Houbraken del. M. Pool sculp. Headpiece to a Latin text and commentary on Aeneid book VI

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3017372i

Reproduction note

After: a drawing in the reverse direction in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The print is slightly larger (image 9.9 x 13.9 cm) and shows a little more at the sides than the drawing (9.6 x 13.1 cm), which may have been trimmed (judged from the reproduction on the museum's website)

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