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Six Illustrations from the Story of Dido and Aeneas: Love Penetrates the Heart of Dido
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Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others

Six Illustrations from the Story of Dido and Aeneas: Love Penetrates the Heart of Dido

1662-1672

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Six Illustrations from the Story of Dido and Aeneas: Love Penetrates the Heart of Dido

Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others

Six Illustrations from the Story of Dido and Aeneas: Love Penetrates the Heart of Dido

Six Illustrations from the Story of Dido and Aeneas: Love Penetrates the Heart of Dido

1662-1672

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 112 x 160 mm. (4 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.) Plate: 67 x 104 mm. (2 5/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.1397

Signed: 1

Inscribed: On light ground at lower left: "98" Beneath plate mark at left in graphite: "LB 43"

Markings: WM: D [heart] TAMIZIER / AUVERGNE [truncated]

Artist

Gerard de Lairesse

1640–1710

Dutch, 1641 - 1711
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Publisher

Nicolaes Visscher I

1617–1678

Dutch, 1618 - 1679
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Publisher

Nicolaes Visscher II

1648–1701

Dutch, 1649 - 1702
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Publisher

Gerard Valck

1650–1725

Dutch, 1651/52 - 1726
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