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Edward Francis Burney (1760-1848)
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Edward Francis Burney (1760-1848)

Apollo in Vulcan's forge

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Edward Francis Burney (1760-1848)
Apollo in Vulcan's forge
pen and grey ink and watercolour, within the artist's wash-line border, unframed
3 5/8 x 4¾ in. (9.3 x 12.1 cm.); and a study of Putti by Giovanni Battista Cipriani, R.A. (2)
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The subject of the present watercolour is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 4, lines 171-6. Apollo, god of the sun, who saw all, witnessed Venus' adulterous affair with Mars and reported the story to her husband Vulcan, who is shown in his forge.