Venus Blinding Cupid

Robert Strange after Titian1769

Details

Title: Venus Blinding Cupid
Creator: Robert Strange after Titian
Date Created: 1769
Subject Keywords: blind (people), mythology, senses, sight, Venus
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “R. Strange Romae delint. Å 1761. Atque Å 1769 Aere incidit Londini”
Print State: Second of two states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1946
Materials & Techniques: Engraving on laid paper. Watermark: Letters with design (indecipherable)
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Strange drew his copy of the Titian painting in 1761 in Rome; he engraved it in London in 1769.
Dimensions: 1792
Bibliography: Le Blanc, “Strange” no. 28 second of two states (pp. 30–31)
Associated People: Created by Robert Strange (British (English), 1721-1792), After Titian (Italian (Venetian), ca. 1488 - 1576)
Accession Number: 1946.D2.26

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