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.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
9/21/1964	Treatment	cleaned; other
1/25/1988	Treatment	cleaned; other; examined for condition
5/09/1991	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

• Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters