Dryope in een lotusboom veranderd, Virgilius Solis, 1569

Title(s)

Dryope in een lotusboom veranderd
Dryope in arborem (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-22.092(R)

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 2296
• Hollstein German 1838

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
• Dryope changed into a lotus-plant: Dryope is changed into a lotus-plant, when to please her little boy she picks a flower from a lotus-plant (i.e. Lotis metamorphosed) which then starts to bleed (Ovid, Metamorphoses IX 331)

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Geboorte van Hercules

• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part III, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 195, 205, cat.nr. 2296, 1838
• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part II, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 96, 120, cat.nr. 1838