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Title: [Cupid and Death]
Subject: Fables; Cupid; Skeleton; People; Dog
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Greece; Ancient Greece
Description: A skeleton is holding a bow and arrow while cupid is also holding a bow and arrow in the sky. An older couple are looking at one another and hugging in the left of the image. A dog is snarling at the skeleton. One man is on one knee praying towards cupid while another man sits back and watches the skeleton.
Image Creator: (); ()
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:27236
Language: eng
Source Name: Aesop's Fables, embelished with one hundred and eleven elegant engravings
Parent Collection: E3 - Aesop's fables- embellished with one hundred and eleven elegant engravings. Engravings by Kirk, del., Scott. (1818)
Image: mta_27236_OBJ.jpg