Fries met de triomf van Neptunus, anonymous, after Cornelis Bos, after Giulio Romano, in or after 1548 - c. 1650

Title(s)

Fries met de triomf van Neptunus

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1997-109

Catalogue reference

• Schéle 55-copy

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Verschillende fabeldieren zijn met elkaar verwrongen. Links rijdt Neptunus op een hippocampus, rechts een meermin met pauwenveren in haar hand.

Artist

• print maker: anonymous
• after print by: Cornelis Bos
• after design by: Giulio Romano

Dating

in or after 1548 - c. 1650

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 45 mm × width 315 mm

What

• triumph of Neptune
• river-gods
• sea-horse, hippocamp, 'hippocampus', (horse/fish) (mythological hybrid monster)
• fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'); 'Mostri' (Ripa)

Credit line

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

Acquisition

purchase 7-Jun-1996

Copyright

Public domain

• Cornelis Bos : a study of the origins of the netherland grotesque, p. 132, cat.nr. 55 (copy)
• Boekhorst - Brueghel, p. 124, cat.nr. 59 (copy)