Grabado realizado en base a una fotografía del cuadro al óleo de 1850 de Frost.
Representa una escena mitológica campestre en la que vemos a un Cupido en reposo rodeado de ninfas.
["W. E. Frost, A.R.A. Pinxt."] ; ["P. Lightfoot, sculpt."] ; ["From the picture in the Royal Collection"] .
"The little Love-god, lying once asleep,
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vowed haste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest volutary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;
And so the general of hot desire
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd…" |