Description: VENUS (CREATED FROM THE BLOOD OF URANUS AND THE FOAM OF THE SEA) SEATED IN A SHELL DRAWN BY DOLPHINS [THE BIRTH OF VENUS]
Inscription Greek: ΓΝΑΙΟΣ
Signature: Gnaios
Literary Source Record: Bion Hesiod
Last Recorded Collection: 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): 108
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.164
