Echo, Giovanni Folo, after Agostino Tofanelli, after Guy Head, 1774 - 1836

Title(s)

Echo
Eco (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-36.115

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 12
• collector's mark: Lugt 2165

Description

Echo zweeft boven een rivier. Op de achtergrond staat Narcissus aan de kant. Tekst in ondermarge.

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Folo (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: Agostino Tofanelli (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Guy Head (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Giovanni Folo (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Rome
after drawing by: Italy
publisher: Rome

Dating

1774 - 1836

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 414 mm × width 290 mm

What

• Echo changed into a voice: when pining away on account of Narcissus, the nymph Echo is changed into a voice; at the same time her bones turn into stone (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 398)

Acquisition

purchase 1828

Copyright

Public domain

• Selling prints to the Rijksmuseum in 1827 : Christiaan Josi and Cornelis Apostool, Erik Hinterding, Olenka Horbatsch