"Woodland scene with a naked young boy lying on a cloth in the foreground, guarded by dogs; to right, a herdsman and a woman, presumably Mithridates and his wife Cyno, surprised at the sight; to left, a curved stone frieze of soldiers, surmounted by a crown and a naked child holding up a shield; to right, a boy looking on from behind Mithridates' sheep; fields and cattle in the background at centre."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
Description:
Title etched below image, above and on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat.", Text below title: Six of the picture 2 f. 4 1/4 i. by 3 f. 6 1/2 i. long., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 151 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1781, by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C.
