[Penelope and the suitors] Ingratam Veneri pone superbiam. Non te Penelopem difficilem procis. Tyrrhenus genuit Parens. Horat. lib. 3.
Dom.us Magiotto pinx. Nicolaus Cavalli sculp Venetiis. [Venice, n.d., c.1760.] Rare engraving. 370 x 490mm (14½ x 19¼"), with very large margins. Creasing in margins. A young man addresses a young woman in the centre who holds an apple, with an elderly bawd watching behind. The lines from Horace refers to the scene in the Oddysey in which Penelope receives unwelcome suitors. BM 1951,0714.159. From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
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