Psamathe verandert de wolf in marmer, Virgilius Solis, 1569

Title(s)

Psamathe verandert de wolf in marmer
Lupus in lapidem (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-22.106(V)

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 2301
• Hollstein German 1865

Description

Een wolf valt de kudde van Peleus aan en doodt de dieren. Thetis en Peleus smeken daarop de zeegodin Psamathe haar wrok te stoppen, waarop zij de wolf verandert in marmer.

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
• wolf turned to marble: at the prayer of Peleus and Thetis, a wolf is turned into marble by Psamathe because it had attacked the cattle that Peleus was herding on the sea-shore (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 401)

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Ceyx komt om door een schipbreuk

• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part III, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 197, 203, cat.nr. 2301, 1865
• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part II, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 98, 125, cat.nr. 1865