Jupiter en Mercurius in het huis van Philemon en Baucis, Virgilius Solis, 1569

Title(s)

Jupiter en Mercurius in het huis van Philemon en Baucis
Philemon & Baucis Deos Hospitio recipiunt (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-22.087(V)

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 2303
• Hollstein German 1827

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

• Philemon and his wife Baucis hospitably entertain Jupiter and Mercury in travellers' guise; possibly a goose, which they try to kill for the occasion, flies to the visitors for refuge
• scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Philemon en Baucis in bomen veranderd

• Virgil Solis book illustrations, Dieter Beaujean, p. 193, 204, cat.nr. 2303, 1827
• Virgil Solis book illustrations, Dieter Beaujean, p. 96, 118, cat.nr. 1827