Perseus en Andromeda, anonymous, after Jan Saenredam, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1601 - 1651

Title(s)

Perseus en Andromeda

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-H-1246

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 85-copy A

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 10
• collector's mark: Lugt 11
• number: ‘1’

Description

Andromeda, de dochter van een Ethiopische koning, is vastgeketend aan een rots. Op de achtergrond verslaat Perseus het zeemonster om Andromeda te kunnen komen redden.

Artist

• print maker: anonymous
• after print by: Jan Saenredam
• after design by: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• Cornelius Schonaeus (mentioned on object)

Place

Northern Netherlands

Dating

1601 - 1651

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 258 mm × width 183 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

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• Jan Saenredam to Roelandt Savery, George Shepard Keyes, p. 65, cat.nr. 85 copy A