Skip to main content

Dido on the funeral pyre with Iris above taking a lock of her hair: P.6627-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Dido on the funeral pyre with Iris above taking a lock of her hair

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Testa, Giovanni Cesare
Publisher: Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de'
Draughtsman: Testa, Pietro (il Lucchesino) (After)

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1934) by Simmonds, Harvey

School or Style

Italian

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.6627-R
Primary reference Number: 145273
Nagler (Künstler-Lexicon): 11
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 31 January 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Dido on the funeral pyre with Iris above taking a lock of her hair" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/145273 Accessed: 2024-12-22 18:57:49

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/145273 |title=Dido on the funeral pyre with Iris above taking a lock of her hair |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 18:57:49|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-145273

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...