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Eros (Cupid) carried in triumph on a chariot drawn by for white horses and surrounded by a crowd; above, putti holding a crown of laurel and the portraits of a man and a woman; below, a rococo cartouche. Ink drawing.

Eros (Cupid), holding a bow and arrow, being crowned with laurel by his mother Aphrodite (Venus); two putti are cutting branches of laurel and three putti are playing with arrows in the foreground; below, a rococo cartouche. Ink drawing.

Anchises, Dione, and Aeneas (centre); Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (left); Pan and Eros (right). Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.

Pan and Eros; Salmacis and Hermaphroditus making love. Etching after Annibale Carracci.

Pygmalion with his statue of a woman that comes to life. Engraving by J.N. Laugier, 1824, after A.L. Girodet-Trioson, 1819.

A physician bleeding a patient, other patients are waiting to see him; two erotes depicted on the shoulder of the vessel. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, ca. 1937.

A tryst in a temple of Cupid: two women stand in the temple, and one of them is kissed on the hand by her lover. Engraving attributed to C. Bervic, 180-, after a painting attributed to L.R. Trinquesse, 1786.

Eros & Psyche. A poem in twelve measures / by Robert Bridges ; the story done into English from the Latin of Apuleius.

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Pygmalion with his statue of a woman that comes to life. Engraving by J.N. Laugier, 1824, after A.L. Girodet-Trioson, 1819.

A tryst in a temple of Cupid: two women stand in the temple, and one of them is kissed on the hand by her lover. Engraving attributed to C. Bervic, 180-, after a painting attributed to L.R. Trinquesse, 1786.

Eros & Psyche. A poem in twelve measures / by Robert Bridges ; the story done into English from the Latin of Apuleius.

Eros (Cupid), holding a bow and arrow, being crowned with laurel by his mother Aphrodite (Venus); two putti are cutting branches of laurel and three putti are playing with arrows in the foreground; below, a rococo cartouche. Ink drawing.

Eros (Cupid) carried in triumph on a chariot drawn by for white horses and surrounded by a crowd; above, putti holding a crown of laurel and the portraits of a man and a woman; below, a rococo cartouche. Ink drawing.