| Description Of Item | Notes on the representation of Cupid by painters as a winged god, ‘to signifie the Inconstant, ficklenesse of them that are overcome by him’.
Copied from Franciscus Junius, The painting of the ancients in three bookes: declaring by historicall observations and examples, the beginning, progresse, and consummation of that most noble art (1638).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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