Metgezellen van Cadmus door een draak verslonden, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Metgezellen van Cadmus door een draak verslonden
Draco Martius Cadmi Socios depascit (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

22/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-135-3

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 659
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

De mannen van Cadmus worden gedood door de draak die de waterbron bewaakt. Titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.

Artist

• print maker: Antonio Tempesta
• publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu
• publisher: Pieter de Jode (I) (rejected attribution)

Place

print maker: Italy
publisher: Amsterdam
publisher: Antwerp

Dating

1606 - 1638

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 104 mm × width 118 mm

What

• Cadmus' companions, sent to fetch water, are slain by the dragon which guarded the spring

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 20, cat.nr. 659
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787