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- Title:
Dido and Aeneas
- Date:
- 1787
- Medium:
- Line engraving and etching
- Dimensions:
- Plate: 17 7/8 x 22in. (45.4 x 55.9cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "The Landscape painted by T.Jonas, the Figures by J.Mortimer."; lettered, lower center: "The Figures engraved by F. Bartolozzi R.A. | To Her Imperial Majesty CATHARINE IId. Empress of all the Russias, the Print of DIDO and AENEAS, from a Picture in Her Valuable Collection is with her Majestys permission | Most respectfully inscribed by the most obedient and devoted servant, Elizabeth Woolett~ | Vide Virgil's Aeneis, Book IV. line 231. | London: Published as the Act directs, 1 Feby. 1787, by Eliz. Woollett, North Street, Upper Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place."; lettered, lower right: "The Landscape engraved by Wm. Woollett, Engraver to HIs Majesty."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.20190
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- armor | city | literary theme | lovers | palace | religious and mythological subject | river | trees | waterfall
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41508
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