Bacchus verandert zijn ontvoerders in dolfijnen, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Bacchus verandert zijn ontvoerders in dolfijnen
Tyrrheni nautae in Delphinos (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

29/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-136-4

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 666
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

Bacchus is ontvoerd op een schip op zee. Hij verandert zijn ontvoerders in dolfijnen. Titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.

Artist

• print maker: Antonio Tempesta
• publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu
• publisher: Pieter de Jode (I) (rejected attribution)

Place

print maker: Italy
publisher: Amsterdam
publisher: Antwerp

Dating

1606 - 1638

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 104 mm × width 118 mm

What

• Tyrrhenian sailors changed into dolphins: when Bacchus turns himself into a lion and has a vine grow about the ship, the Tyrrhenian sailors out of terror jump into the sea, and are metamorphosed into dolphins (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 662)

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 24, cat.nr. 666
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787