Dood van Cleopatra met slang, Meester van 1515, 1500 - 1548

Title(s)

Dood van Cleopatra met slang

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-919

Catalogue reference

• Hind (Italy) 2
• The Illustrated Bartsch 13

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 10
• collector's mark: Lugt 11
• inscription: ‘B 27 f 101 104’

Artist

• print maker: Meester van 1515
• after own design by: Meester van 1515

Place

Italy

Dating

1500 - 1548

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving / drypoint

Measurements

height 152 mm × width 242 mm

What

• death of Cleopatra: she commits suicide by holding to her breast an asp, which she has taken from a basket of figs

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 25, p. 578, 579, cat.nr. 13
• Early Italian engraving : a critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described, Arthur Mayger Hind, dl. 5, p. 283, cat.nr. 2