Dochters van Pelias doden hun vader, Virgilius Solis, 1569

Title(s)

Dochters van Pelias doden hun vader
Pelias à suis filiabus occiditur (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-22.077(V)

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 2303
• Hollstein German 1807

Description

Medea dwingt de dochters van de slapende Pelias om hun vader te vermoorden. Rechts een ketel met de ram die Medea in een lam veranderde om de dochters van haar toverkunst te overtuigen. Op de achtergrond Medea op haar wagen getrokken door draken.

Artist

• print maker: Virgilius Solis
• publisher: Georg Rab
• publisher: Sigmund Feyerabend
• publisher: erven Weigand Han

Place

print maker: Neurenberg
publisher: Frankfurt am Main
publisher: Frankfurt am Main
publisher: Frankfurt am Main

Dating

1569

Material

• paper

Technique

letterpress printing

Measurements

height 60 mm × width 80 mm × height 100 mm × width 130 mm
height 150 mm × width 183 mm

What

• scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament
• Medea boils an old ram in a cauldron: a young lamb comes out; the daughters of Pelias watch the scene
• the daughters of Pelias kill their father in his bed; Medea plunges his body in boiling water

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Cycnus en Phylius

• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part III, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 191, 204, cat.nr. 2303, 1807
• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part II, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 94, 115, cat.nr. 1807