Description: PENELOPE CARESSING THE GOAT INTO WHICH MERCURY HAD CHANGED HIMSELF [ON MOUNT TAYGETUS]
Inscription Greek: ΔΕΜΟΦΙΛΟΣ
Signature: DEMOPHILOS
Literary Source Record: Ovid, Metam.
Last Recorded Collection: Private Collection: Lausanne
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): II.144
Christie's, London: 1839-640
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): 304
Scarisbrick, (Charles), Esq.
Southesk, (James Carnegie, 9th Earl of): no. S 6
Christie's, London: May 15, 1861, lot 14
Southesk, (Earl of): x
Wagner, C.; Boardman, J.: A Collection of Classical and Eastern Intaglios, Rings and Cameos (2003): no.666
