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Source Description
According to the Roman writer Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), these young lovers each committed suicide thinking that the other had died.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
2075
label
Locket with the Deaths of Pyramus and Thisbe
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
2075
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Locket with the Deaths of Pyramus and Thisbe
description
According to the Roman writer Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), these young lovers each committed suicide thinking that the other had died.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1550 (Renaissance)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Enamels
lockets
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
3.8
height
4.5
depth
1.2
dimensionsRaw
Open, H: 1 1/2 × W: 1 3/4 × D: 1/2 in. (3.8 × 4.5 × 1.2 cm); Closed, H: 1 1/2 × W: 1 × D: 1 in. (3.8 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm)
Source extras
med
agate, gold, enamel
creator_ids
33562
collection_ids
REN
exhibition_ids
2513
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
bc3201956a103075