Cupid making fire
date: label: date made
content: 1777
name: label: original artist
content: Reni, Guido
label: engraver
content: Baillie, William
notes: label: Description
content: Engraving with stipple and roulette (crayon manner). Paired impressions printed in black or red in imitation of drawing; this version printed in black and brown inks. Cupid strikes flint to make fire; another putto holds the broken club of Hercules to be set alight as a torch. Published Jan. 1, 1777. Imprint below image: From a Drawing by Guido in the Collectn. of the Earl of Bute, with a poem:
label: Description
content: Why with Flint & Steel sweet Boy/
label: Description
content: The Club of Hercules Destroy?/
label: Description
content: When your Dart's unerring Aim/
label: Description
content: Can Strike into his Breast a Flame.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
topic: label: Subject
content: Mythology
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ingrid R. Rose in memory of Milton R. Rose
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0197.27
label: accession number
content: 2015.0197
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0197.27
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: engraving
label: Object Type
content: intaglio printing
label: Object Type
content: Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 23 cm; 11 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 24.5 cm x 19.5 cm; 9 21/32 in x 7 11/16 in