Title(s)

Reproductie van een prent met voorstelling van de wraak van Tomyris door Paulus Pontius
Thomyris & Cyrus by P. Pontius after Rubens (title on object)
Thomyris & Cyrus par P. Pontius d'après Rubens (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1403-40

Artist

• maker: anonymous
• after design by: Paulus Pontius
• after design by: Peter Paul Rubens (mentioned on object)

Dating

c. 1892 - in or before 1897

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 117 mm × width 179 mm

What

• print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph
• Tomyris orders the head of the fallen Cyrus to be cut off and dipped into a vessel of human blood, i.e. the vengeance of Tomyris

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Museum Plantin-Moretus : Anvers : album contenant 60 reproductions photocollographiques des intérieurs et documents de la célèbre imprimerie = Antwerp : album containing 60 collotype prints of the interior and old documents of the celebrated printing house (RP-F-2001-7-1403)