The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche, commanded by Venus to visit Proserpine in the underworld, embarks on the ferry manned by Charon; she ignores a lame ass and its lame driver. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

  • Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.
Date:
[between 1500 and 1599]
Reference:
2952294i
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Publication/Creation

[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1500 and 1599]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.8 x 23 cm

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Lettering

Et ben provista passa 'l asinaro ... Ecco un putrido vecchio la scongiura, Ch'entro lo tiri, essa non l'ode, ó cura. Bears numbers: 25 (shaded) and 25 (in clear)

Edition

['Raphael invenit' state a].

Creator/production credits

One in a series of prints after drawings attributed when first published to Raphael, but attributed by Vasari to Michiel Coxie. The engraving is attributed to the Master of the Die on the evidence of his monogram on the earliest state of two of the plates (nos. 6 and 9)

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, no. 63.25, pp. 221-222
G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985, p. 255, no. 25a and p. 822

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2952294i

Notes

The twenty-fifth in a series of prints of Cupid and Psyche

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