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Drawing, Cupid Awakens Psyche Overcome by the Content of the Vase Filled by Proserpine

This is a Drawing. It was created by Johann August Nahl The Younger and after Giulio Romano. It is dated ca. 1781. Its medium is lead pencil, pen and dark ink, brush and black gray watercolor on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by George A. Hearn.

Its dimensions are

26.6 × 42 cm (10 1/2 × 16 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: vryheit in the scheme of Churchill 89, the legend begins above at left but the letters have wrong directions

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Drawing, Cupid Awakens Psyche Overcome by the Content of the Vase Filled by Proserpine; Johann August Nahl The Younger (German, 1752 - 1825); After Giulio Romano (Italian, 1499–1546); Germany; lead pencil, pen and dark ink, brush and black gray watercolor on paper; 26.6 × 42 cm (10 1/2 × 16 9/16 in.); 1897-9-16

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