[Amor tied to a tree]

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Title: [Amor tied to a tree]
Printer/Publisher: [Basa, Domenico, active 1579-1596]
Other personalities: [Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606 (author of book)]
[Borcht, Petrus van der, c. 1535-1608 (after) (engraver)]
Medium: Graphic
Name of publisher: [Domenico Basa]
Place of publication: Rome]
Date of publication: [1595]
Physical description: 1 print : Etching ; plate mark 104 x 81 mm. on sheet 170 x 120 mm.
Materials: Paper
Country: Italy
Inscriptions: Bottom right corner: "I"
Annotations: Pr. 1 of: Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606, DE CRVCE LIBRI TRES. Ad sacram profanamq historiam utiles.
Curatorial Comment: See for the story Ausonius, "Cupido cruciatur [Cupid crucified]" v. 56-62. Text has been printed on the lower margin of the etching.
Conservation: Good
Personal Name: Cupid (Roman deity)
Topical Term: Crucifixion
Location: Biblioteca Corsiniana
: Fondo Corsini
: 26.L.62,tav.1,pag.19
Series: Link to mother card
Series' component: 26.L.62,tav.1-21,pag.19-121
Album: Link to album description
Album's component: 26.L.62
Bibliography: Cf. The New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700, Hans Mielke and Ursula Mielke, Peeter van der Borcht. Book Illustrations, part V, ed. Ger Luijten, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel - Amsterdam, 2007, p. 204, n. 2262 (in reverse)

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