Niobe grieving over the loss of her fourteen children while holding some of their dead bodies. Etching by B. Pinelli after F. Rehberg, 1810.

  • Rehberg, Friedrich, 1758-1835.
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1810
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46763i
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Niobe grieving over the loss of her fourteen children while holding some of their dead bodies. Etching by B. Pinelli after F. Rehberg, 1810. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Apollo and Artemis are shown in the left hand corner of the print in the act of shooting the children to punish Niobe for her vanity and arrogance

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Rome : [publisher not identified], 1810.

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1 print : etching ; image 34.2 x 50.3 cm

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Niobe. Quadro dipinto per sua Altezza Imperiale Principe Eugenio Napoleone Vice Re d' Italia. Pinelli incise. Federico Rehberg pinx. Rom 1810

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Wellcome Collection 46763i

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