Cupid's Tower, ca. 1776

  • English
  • Matthew Darly, English

Etching and engraving with printed (?) color ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 9 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (24.8 × 17.5 cm) Sheet: 11 1/4 × 18 inches (28.6 × 45.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund

60.43.B

Watermark: IV Stamped, in red, verso: DIA

Inscribed, in plate, center lower margin: CUPID'S TOWER. | Fair tresses Man's imperial race ensnare, | And beauty draws us with a single hair. Inscribed, lower right edge: Pub'd. March 1. 1776 by M Darly 39 Strand.

1960-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

English, Cupid's Tower, ca. 1776, etching and engraving with printed (?) color ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 60.43.B.