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Tu fuit inutilement

Print
18th century (engraved), 12/1914 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Basset (publisher)
Prot (printmaker)
Monnet, Charles (artist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

'Tu fuit inutilement'. Copperplate engraving print. An ovoid image showing Cupid aiming his arrow into the side of a woman who is naked apart from a scarf over her arm, in a woodland setting. Title and printing details given below the image.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Myths & Legends
Object type
Print
TitleTu fuit inutilement
Materials and techniques
Copperplate engraving print
Paper
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
'Tu fuit inutilement'. Copperplate engraving print. An ovoid image showing Cupid aiming his arrow into the side of a woman, in a woodland setting. By Prott, after Charles Monnet. Published by Basset, Paris. Engraved in the 18th century, this impression taken in 1914.
Physical description
'Tu fuit inutilement'. Copperplate engraving print. An ovoid image showing Cupid aiming his arrow into the side of a woman who is naked apart from a scarf over her arm, in a woodland setting. Title and printing details given below the image.
Dimensions
  • Size of sheet height: 36.2cm
  • Size of sheet width: 34.7cm
  • Size of plate impression height: 35.5cm
  • Size of plate impression width: 26.2cm
Measured by DH 01/07/2010.
Marks and inscriptions
  • Tu fuity inutilement (Title, below image.)
  • Monet, P. / .Prot . Sculp. (Directly below, and following the curve of, the image)
  • A Paris chez Basset, Md. d'Estampes at Fabriquant de Papiers peints, rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, No.64 (Along bottom of plate impression.)
Subjects depicted
Woman
Bow
Arrows
Quiver
Woodland
Flowers
Cupid
Associated object
E.3241-1914
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3241A-1914

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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