Amorini Celebrate the Rape of Proserpina, 1805?12, Engraving and etching, Plate: 25 9/16 x 30 5/16 in. (65 x 77 cm), Prints, Francesco Rosaspina (Italian, Montescudo 1762?1841 Bologna), After Francesco Albani (Italian, Bologna 1578?1660 Bologna), Having conquered the sky and the earth, Venus told her son that she wished to extend their dominion to the Underworld. Cupid aimed his sharpest arrow at Pluto, causing him to fall violently in love with Proserpina, who was gathering flowers with her companions (right background) in a land of perpetual spring