Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5135699
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
Het liefdesverdriet van Cornelius Gallus om zijn Lycoris
Artist
Technique
Year
1697
Print run
Signed
Publisher
Dimensions
25,4 x 19,3
Printing office
Details

Etching, unsigned, depicting Cornelius Gallus's heartbreak for his Lycoris, as described in Virgil's tenth Ecloge. Published in London by Jacob Tonson in 1697 in: "The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneid. Translated into English Verse; by Mr. Dryden. Adorn'd with a Hundred Sculptures." Numbered 42 at the top.

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