The children of Niobe are shot with arrows by Apollo. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1761, after R. Wilson.

London (in Cheapside) : Published according to Act of Parliament, by J. Boydell engraver, 1761.

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 43.3 x 57.8 cm

Niobe. See Ovid's Met.os page 17. Size of picture 6 feet 3 in. long. 4 feet 10 in deep. Richard Wilson pinxit. William Woollett sculpsit. I.Boydell excudt.

Forms a pair with a print of Phaethon (Wellcome Library catalogue no. 3162289i)

Timothy Clayton, The English print 1688-1802, New Haven and London 1997, pp. 186-189

Antony Griffiths, The print before photography, London 2016, p. 73 ("In 1761, when Woollett's Death of the children of Niobe after Richard Wilson became Boydell's first great success, he sold all the impressions for 5/-...")

Wellcome Collection 2856156i