Apollo doodt Python, Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Title(s)

Apollo doodt Python
Python ab Apolline interficitur (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

9/150

Object number

RP-P-OB-37.783

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 646
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Apollo schiet met pijl-en-boog op Python. Op de achtergrond de zonnewagen van Apollo met vier paarden. Titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.

Artist

• printmaker: Antonio Tempesta
• publisher: Pieter de Jode (I)

Place

printmaker: Italy
publisher: Antwerp

Dating

1606

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 104 mm × width 117 mm

What

• (story of) Apollo (Phoebus)
• Apollo shoots Python, the dragon

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Italian masters of the sixteenth century, Sebastian Buffa, dl. 36, p. 14, cat.nr. 646
• Le peintre graveur: [vol. 17: peintres ou dessinateurs italiens : maîtres du seizième siècle, 2], Adam von, 1757-1821 Bartsch, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787