Daphne, Cornelis Cort, after Frans Floris (I), 1564

Title(s)

Daphne
Godinnen en nimfen (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

8/8

Object number

RP-P-1986-370

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch 165-1(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 1379
• collector's mark: Lugt 2542

Description

Daphne verandert in een laurierboom. Takken en bladeren groeien uit haar hoofd en handen.

Artist

• print maker: Cornelis Cort
• after design by: Frans Floris (I) (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Hieronymus Cock (mentioned on object)

Place

Antwerp

Dating

1564

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 266 mm × width 193 mm

What

• Daphne changed into a laurel-tree: while fleeing from Apollo, Daphne is changed into a laurel-tree by her father Peneus (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 548)

Credit line

• Gift of Jonkvrouw A.C. Teding van Berkhout, Amsterdam and S.F., Baroness van Höevell-Teding van Berkhout, Bergen (Noord-Holland)

Acquisition

gift 1986

Copyright

Public domain

• Cornelis Cort, dl. 3, p. 13, cat.nr. 165