Title: Love Instructed By Mercury
Object type: Print
Date: 18th century
Artist:  Pierre François Basan 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1723–1797 Paris (?)
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 10 1/2 × 15 1/16 in. (26.6 × 38.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1962
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Mercury, term: Venus