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Mythology, Greek

Images

  • Women representing architecture and astronomy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1803, after R. Corbould.
  • Circe sits with books and wand; to right, men transformed into animals. Etching by G.B. Castiglione, 165-.
  • Silenus, holding grapes and crowned with vines, flanked by a maenad and a faun. Engraving by C. Faucci, c. 1768, after G. B. Cipriani after P. Rubens.
  • Caduceus surmounted by Pegasus and cornucopiae
  • A satyr wearing spectacles removes a thorn from the foot of a male faun while a female faun and boy satyr observe, with printed latin verse. Line engraving by G. Piccini after J. Muller after B. Spranger.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.

    | Reference: 16062i
    • Books

    Greek mythology : an introduction / Fritz Graf ; translated by Thomas Marier.

    Graf, Fritz. | Date: 1996, ©1993
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0004914: Ganymede playing with a hoop whilst holding a fighting cock

    | Date: October 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/40/6
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

    Forms of astonishment : Greek myths of metamorphosis / Richard Buxton.

    Buxton, Richard (Richard G. A.) | Date: 2009
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Women representing architecture and astronomy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1803, after R. Corbould.

    Corbould, Richard, 1757-1831. | Date: 22 October 1803 | Reference: 25669i
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