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Latona Changing the Peasants of Lycia into Frogs

(Italian, born 1659)
(Italian (Bolognese), 1560–1609)
late 17th century
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 43.8 x 34.6 cm (17 1/4 x 13 5/8 in.)(trimmed within platemark at left and bottom)
Credit LineBequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession numberB1456
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock, Boston, Paris (1826-1899); his bequest to the MFA 1900
Giulio Cesare Venenti
late 17th century
Giovanni Cesare Testa
about 1650–55
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Published 1772–93
Pink-Flowering Rush (Butomus flore roseo)
Cesare Ubertini
Published 1772–93
Common Periwinkle (Pervinca vulgaris)
Cesare Ubertini
Published 1772–93
Giovanni Cesare Testa
about 1650–55
Giovanni Cesare Testa
about 1650–55
Count Cesare Massimiliano Gini
late 18th–early 19th century