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The Modern Pygmalion

late 18th or early 19th century

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The story

The scholar Gert Schiff titled this The Modern Pygmalion, while Kurt von Meier called it The Ancients, and the room is full of Greco-Roman and Egyptian touches. An early critic praised it as composed in the manner of the Italian masters.

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Object details

Title: The Modern Pygmalion
Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Date: late 18th or early 19th century
Culture: British
Medium: Hand-coloured etching
Object type: Prints
Collection: Not recorded
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0041
Original image: 1530 × 2070 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Thomas Rowlandson. The Modern Pygmalion. late 18th or early 19th century. Not recorded. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0041/