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Maker(s):Martin, John
Culture:British (1789-1854)
Title:Salamacis and Hermaphroditis
Date Made:ca. 1814
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Measurements:23 1/2 x 17 in.; 59.69 x 43.18 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1976.67
Credit Line:Museum purchase
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Martin presents a subject from Ovid’s Metamorphoses: the Naiad Salamacis observes Hermaphroditis, the handsome son of Aphrodite and Hermes, moments before he rejects her advances, and she asks the gods to bind them forever, prompting their combination into a single androgynous being. Already in this early work, Martin—later celebrated as a mezzotint printmaker of dramatic subjects from Milton and the Bible—crafts a hard-edged landscape that subsumes the diminutive figures.

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