The statue of Pallas Athene (Palladion, Palladium) at Troy. Etching after A. van Diepenbeeck.

Ovid, Fasti VI.425-431. The city depicted is praised by Marolles (loc. cit.) for the magnificence of its architecture, due to its having been built by gods, Neptune and Apollo, whose statues are placed in a square, centre middle-ground. Right, the temple of Pallas Athene in the Doric order. Left, a vista including a statue of the Sphinx, gatehouses, a fountain, altars, obelisks etc. In the distance, the Greek armies attack the walls of Troy

Within the temple is the statue of Pallas Athene (Palladion) which was said to have descended from the sky. Its safety was said to be indispensable to the survival of Troy. After it was removed by Diomedes and Ulysses, Troy fell to the Greeks (Marolles, loc. cit.)

[Paris? Amsterdam?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1655 and 1733?]

1 print : etching ; platemark 25.7 x 19.9 cm

There is a space for lettering at the bottom of the plate, but there is no lettering.

[State before lettering].

One print in a series of prints designed by Abraham van Diepenbeeck, published by M. de Marolles in Le temple des Muses, Paris 1655, through engravings by Cornelis Bloemaert, and subsequently copied by Peter de Bailliu (1676) and Bernard Picart (1732-1733) for publication in editions of Ovid's Metamporphoses

Michel de Marolles, Tableaux du temple des muses: tirez du cabinet de feu Mr. Favereau, conseiller du roy en sa Cour des aydes, Paris 1655, pp. 395-396

Wellcome Collection 2917585i