Cartouche: Perseus bevrijdt Andromeda, Abraham de Bruyn, 1584

Title(s)

Cartouche: Perseus bevrijdt Andromeda
ANDROMEDA (title on object)

Object type

• print

Serial number

2/6

Object number

RP-P-1898-A-20132

Catalogue reference

• Orn Cat I
  Remark: Aantekening RPK: Orn Cat I 28.A.2 add

Inscriptions / marks

• title: ‘ANDROMEDA’
• number: ‘2’

Description

Cartouche met Perseus die, gezeten op het paard Pegasus, het zeemonster bestrijdt. Rechts Andromeda geketend aan de rots. Ovaal cartouche in omlijsting van figuren en zeemonsters tegen gearceerde achtergrond.

Artist

• print maker: Abraham de Bruyn
• after own design by: Abraham de Bruyn
• publisher: Joos de Bosscher

Place

Netherlands (possibly)

Dating

1584

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 89 mm × width 125 mm

What

• Perseus kills the sea monster (or turns it into stone by showing it the Gorgon's head) to release Andromeda; sometimes her parents Cepheus and Cassiopea watch the scene
• ornament ~ cartouche
• sea-horse, hippocamp, 'hippocampus', (horse/fish) (mythological hybrid monster)

Acquisition

purchase 1898

Copyright

Public domain

• Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, cat.nr. 233