A vase-painting: a head in profile to left, wearing an embroidered cap and ear-pendants. Coloured engraving.
- Date:
- [1785?]
- Reference:
- 2975073i
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Description
A painting on a lekythos then in the possession of Sir William Hamilton and subsequently in the British Museum (lacking the border shown in the present print). The painting recalled for d'Hancarville the story of the origins of the profile sculpture in ancient Greece: the daughter of the Corinthian potter Butades ("Dibutades" in d'Hancarville's text) drew the outline of her lover's shadow on the wall of a cave, which her father subsequently modelled in clay
Publication/Creation
[Paris?] : [F.A. David?], [1785?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving, with etching, with gouache ; platemark 20.5 x 20.5 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Bears number: 38
References note
Ian Jenkins and Kim Sloan, Vases and volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his collection, London 1996, no. 36, p. 159
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2975073i
Type/Technique
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Location Status Access Closed stores