T262, ARIADNE, DAUGHTER OF MINOS KING OF CRETE, WEEPING IN THE ISLE OF NAXOS BECAUSE SHE WAS FORSAKEN BY THESEUS, WHO HAD CARRIED OFF HER SISTER PHAEDRA [ARIADNE ON THE SHORE OF NAXOS ABANDONED BY THESEUS, WHOSE GALLEY IS SEEN AT SEA]
Description: ARIADNE, DAUGHTER OF MINOS KING OF CRETE, WEEPING IN THE ISLE OF NAXOS BECAUSE SHE WAS FORSAKEN BY THESEUS, WHO HAD CARRIED OFF HER SISTER PHAEDRA [ARIADNE ON THE SHORE OF NAXOS ABANDONED BY THESEUS, WHOSE GALLEY IS SEEN AT SEA]
Inscription Greek: ΓΝΑΙΟΣ
Signature: Gnaios
Last Recorded Collection: Christie's, London: May 15, 1861, lot 2
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): II.30
Christie's, London: 1839-94
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): 262
