Spookgestalte van Dionysios van Syracuse, Johann Heinrich Füssli, c. 1787

Title(s)

Spookgestalte van Dionysios van Syracuse

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1971-241

Catalogue reference

• Nagler Künstlerlexikon

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Artist

• print maker: Johann Heinrich Füssli

Dating

c. 1787

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 237 mm × width 185 mm

What

• male persons from classical history (DION)
• Misery; 'Miseria mondana' (Ripa)
• monumental adornments (in city)
• insects: caterpillar
• vine-tendril, leaf
• sailing-ship, sailing-boat

Who

• Dionysios I van Syracuse

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1971

Copyright

Public domain

• Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, Gert Schiff, cat.nr. 318
• Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, dl. 4, p. 528
• Keuze uit de aanwinsten 1971 van het Rijksprentenkabinet