Description: PSYCHE CONTEMPLATING THE MURDER OF CUPID [TORCH IN ONE HAND, SWORD IN THE OTHER]
Inscription Greek: ΠΕΜΑΛΛΙΟ
Signature: Pemallios
Literary Source Record: Apuleius Tighe
Last Recorded Collection: Leicestershire Mercury: 5 November 1853 (p. 1)
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.187
Christie's, London: 1839-1091
Prendeville, J.: Explanatory catalogue of the proof-impressions of the antique gems possessed by the late Prince Poniatowski and now in the possession of John Tyrrell, Esq. (1841): 122
Comments: Described in the Mercury as representation of 'the human soul asleep till fired and inspired by love'.
