Jupiter verandert koning Lycaon in een wolf, Virgilius Solis, 1569

Title(s)

Jupiter verandert koning Lycaon in een wolf
Lycaon in Lupum (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-22.040(R)

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 2300
• Hollstein German 1734

Artist

• print maker: Virgilius Solis (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Georg Rab
• publisher: Sigmund Feyerabend
• publisher: erven Weigand Han

Place

print maker: Neurenberg
publisher: Frankfurt am Main
publisher: Frankfurt am Main
publisher: Frankfurt am Main

Dating

1569

Material

• paper

Technique

letterpress printing

Measurements

height 60 mm × width 80 mm × height 100 mm × width 130 mm
height 150 mm × width 183 mm

What

• Lycaon changed into a wolf: Jupiter changes Lycaon into a wolf as punishment for offering the god, who is sitting at table, human flesh to eat; Lycaon's house is struck with lightning (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 237)
• scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Jupiter vraagt de Olympische goden om raad

• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part III, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 184, 205, cat.nr. 2300, 1734
• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part II, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 89, 103, cat.nr. 1734