Triomf van Neptunus en Amphitrite, Jacob Matham, after Bartholomeus Spranger, 1611 - 1614

Title(s)

Triomf van Neptunus en Amphitrite

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-27.203

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch 180-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Neptunus en zijn bruid Amphitrite samen in een door hippocampussen getrokken schelp. In de lucht strooien putti met bloemen en links in de wolken Mercurius. Zij worden omringd door vele tritons en nereïden.

Artist

• print maker: Jacob Matham (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Bartholomeus Spranger (mentioned on object)
• Theodorus Schrevelius (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Jacob Matham (mentioned on object)
• unknown (mentioned on object)

Place

Haarlem

Dating

1611 - 1614

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 282 mm × width 414 mm

What

• (story of) Neptune (Poseidon)
• offspring, companion(s), train etc. of Neptune
• (story of) Amphitrite

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Bartholomeus Spranger : splendor and eroticism in imperial Prague : the complete works, Sally Metzler, p. 314-315, cat.nr. 200
• Jacob Matham, dl. 2, p. 78, cat.nr. 180
• The stylish image : printmakers to the court of Rudolf II, R.J.W. Evans, Mungo Campbell, Eliska Fucíková, cat.nr. 20