Title: Venus Pricked by the Thorns of a Rose Bush; Cupid Asleep in the Foreground
Object type: Print
Date: 1556
Artist:  Giorgio Ghisi 
Artist bio: Italian, Mantua ca. 1520–1582 Mantua
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Engraver
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 3/8 in. (30.8 x 21.3 cm) within platemark
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Sleeping, term: Cupid, term: Venus, term: Trees