Perseus rescuing Andromeda from a sea-monster. Etching after A. van Diepenbeeck.

  • Diepenbeeck, Abraham van, 1596-1675.
Date:
[between 1655 and 1733?]
Reference:
2917584i
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Description

Ovid, Metamorphoses IV:706-752. Left, Perseus attacks the sea-monster from the air. Right, Cupid releases one of Andromeda's leg-irons

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 25.6 x 19.7 cm

Contributors

Lettering

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

Edition

[State before lettering].

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2917584i

Notes

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 Metamorphoses

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