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Subject-matter perhaps suggested by Ovid's description of the Kingdom of Flowers (Fasti V, 183) and the Metamorphoses; the figures are Ajax, Clytie, Narcissus and Echo, Hyacinthus, Adonis, Crocus and Smilax

Artist or creator

Date

1627 (circa)

Location

Windsor, Royal Library (inv. RL 11879)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Walter F. Friedlaender, The drawings of Nicolas Poussin , III, London 1953, p. 35, no. A 58, plate 178

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Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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