<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Pan &amp; Syrinx [graphic]</dc:title><dc:date>[not after 1740]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Syrinx, naked apart from a loosely draped sheet, hides among the reeds in the foreground on the left; she holds a clump of reeds in front of her face, concealing it. Pan, behind her on the right, lunges forward through the reeds in pursuit</dc:description><dc:description>Title engraved below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate was likely engraved by Lens in addition to being published by him; according to the British Museum online catalogue, plates that carry only his 'excudit' seem also to have been made by him. See entry for 'Bernard Lens II'.</dc:description><dc:description>Date of publication based on Bernard Lens's death date.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Mounted to 24 x 19 cm.</dc:description><dc:description>Bound in opposite page 93 in volume 4 of Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England. Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780].</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>