The Story of Cupid and Psyche: Venus sending Cupid to Psyche

Details

  • Title

    The Story of Cupid and Psyche: Venus sending Cupid to Psyche

  • Artist/maker

    Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898)
  • Associated place

    Europe (place of creation)
  • Date

  • Material and technique

    graphite on tracing paper

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    mount 11.4 x 7.9 cm (height x width)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875.

  • Museum location

  • Museum department

    Western Art

  • Accession no.

    WA.RS.ED.065.a

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Further reading

Uerscheln, Gabriele, and Michaela Kalusok, Edward Burne-Jones und William Morris: Amor und Psyche: eine Holzstichfolge für das Buchprojeckt 'The Earthly Paradise', 'Dem Buch, das Niemals war' (1866-1872) (Neuss: Clemens-Sels-Museum, 1988), no. 5

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