File:Drawing of a cameo - Hermaphroditus with three erotes.jpg

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English: Glass paste cameo with Aphrodite (or Hermaphrodite) reclining on a couch. Behind the couch is an Eros holding up a leaf-shaped fan, below the couch is a seated Eros playing the lyre, and on the left is a third Eros playing the pan-pipes (see BM Cat. Gem 3858 and 1814,0704.1757).

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The glass paste gem the drawing is based on: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1923-0401-1108

The drawing: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_2010-5006-1551
Date between 1768 and 1805
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1805-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source British Museum collection
Author Charles Townley
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