Call Number: 793.04.29.01.1+ - Yale University Library Search Results

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [29 April 1793]
Call Number:: 793.04.29.01.1+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A design resembling a high-relief depicts three amoretti attend the toilet of an old hag. The cestus of Venus is a huge pad which one of the attendants ties round the old woman's waist as another attendant holds up a mirror. A third cupid ties the gir...
Alternative Title:: Vestal of 1793 trying on the cestus of Venus
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Topic):: Cupids and Grooming
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A vestal of -93 trying on the cestus of Venus engrav'd from a basso-relievo, lately found upon some fragments of antiquity / [graphic]