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[Mythological figure from ancient Greek mirror in Boston Museum: Eros riding a dolphin] – Antique Wall Art

[Mythological figure from ancient Greek mirror in Boston Museum: Eros riding a dolphin], [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
[Mythological figure from ancient Greek mirror in Boston Museum: Eros riding a dolphin], [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving from the Boston collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Mythological figure from ancient Greek mirror in Boston Museum: Eros riding a dolphin], an antique engraving rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A bronze mirror from ancient Greece, decorated with the god Eros riding a dolphin, is the subject of this color wood engraving by F. Eudell. Greek mirrors of this kind were usually handheld, with a polished disc and a decorated handle, and their figures often drew on myth, love, and the sea. The caption card links the object to the Boston museum that held it, a period when American museums were building collections of classical antiquities and when engravings like this one made such objects available to readers far from the originals. The record gives no date, so the print's exact year remains unconfirmed.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : color wood engraving.
SubjectsColor wood engraving by F. Eudell. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Greece--Antiquity; Mythology--Eros; Mirrors; Mass.--Boston; Pub. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,229 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157164

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