Venere e Amore (Venus and Cupid) (1924)

Gino Carlo Sensani

woodcut on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND) Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Materials:

Paper, Ink

Physical Object Description:

Venus and cupid; nude woman reclining, holding mirror, put to at her head, landscape beyond. Signed, dated and titled.

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

22 x 33 cm

Accession Number:

1926,0313.138

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1926

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1924-27; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1927

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Greek and Roman mythology

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