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After Master of the Die (active 1530 -1560), printmaker
After Michiel Coxcie (1499 - 1592), designer
Object name:print
Psyche at her toilette
Series title: The Fable of Psyche
engraving, c. 1531- 1532
Published in
194 x 230 mm Sheet
Reference:
Bartsch XV.215.45 (copy in reverse)
Inscriptions:
7 / Fa la fanciulla quel che detto l'hanno […] Nele morbide piume a ristorarsi (along the bottom margin of image)
Provenance:
Francis Douce (L. 689) (on verso)
Bodleian Library
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.; WA1863.5236
Comment:
Nypmhs helping Psyche at her toilet in the foreground, andPsyche in bed in the background.