Niobe orders people to bring offerings to her, not to Latona. Engraving by J. Saenredam, 1594, after H. Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio.

  • Polidoro, da Caravaggio, approximately 1495-approximately 1543.
Date:
[1594]
Reference:
2475248i
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Publication/Creation

[Haarlem] : [H. Goltzius exc.], [1594]

Physical description

1 print : engraving

Lettering

Filia sed Caei iuga mox petit ardua Cynthi, Et nato nataeq(ue) suum conquesta dolorem est. Vos fove quae genui mensisq(ue) accumbo deorum. Temnor [?] et obblaterat Dircei nunta mariti. F.E. The lettering represents the plea of Niobe that people should bring gifts to her, not to Latona: it appears to have been engraved on the wrong plate

Notes

Episode 6 of 8 episodes of the story of Niobe

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre-graveur, Vienna 1803, vol. III, Saenredam no. 33.6, pp. 231-232

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2475248i

Creator/production credits

F.E. in the lettering is identified in the British Museum online catalogue as Franco Estius, the author of the verses

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