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[The Faithful Shepherd] Doringa Orders her Servant Lupino to hide Silvios Dog. [&] Dorinda returns the Dog to Silvio.
Done after a Sketch of Zucchi by Vispre,
& to be had if him near Slaughton Coffee House St Martins Lane and of W. Darling Engraver in Great Newport Street [n.d. c.1780].
Two aquatints with etching, printed in sepia. 230 x 250mm (9 x 9¾"). Some creasing, wear to edges. Small margins.
Two circular scenes from a series illustrating Giovanni Battista Guarini's ''Il pastor fido'' (1580), in which the nymph Dorinda attempts to win the love of Silvio.
[Ref: 56639] £260.00
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Hippodamia. Who first instituted female races, at the Olympic Games.
Antoni Zucchi delin. Pasteroni sculp.
London: Published 1st July, 1803, by R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts; 101, Strand.
Stipple, rare. 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼"). Creased at pasted areas.
According to myth, King Oenomaos forced all of his daughter's Hippodamia's suitors to a chariot race, executing the losers. When Pelops (hero of the Peloponnese) won, he founded the Olympic Games to thank the gods for the victory. Hippodamia founded women's races in honor of Hera, called Heraea.
[Ref: 32334] £260.00
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