T47, JUPITER IN LOVE WITH LEDA, DAUGHTER OF THESPIUS, AND WIFE OF TYNDARUS, KING OF SPARTA, TAKES THE FORM OF A SWAN TO SURPRISE HER, AND COMMANDS VENUS TO ASSUME THAT OF AN EAGLE AND PURSUE HIM, IN ORDER THAT LEDA MAY GIVE HIM SHELTER
Description: JUPITER IN LOVE WITH LEDA, DAUGHTER OF THESPIUS, AND WIFE OF TYNDARUS, KING OF SPARTA, TAKES THE FORM OF A SWAN TO SURPRISE HER, AND COMMANDS VENUS TO ASSUME THAT OF AN EAGLE AND PURSUE HIM, IN ORDER THAT LEDA MAY GIVE HIM SHELTER
Inscription Greek: ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥ
Signature: Dioskourides
Literary Source Record: Aeneid
Last Recorded Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.66
Christie's, London: 1839-2035
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): 47
