Orpheus attempting to rescue Eurydice from the underworld. Etching after A. van Diepenbeeck.

  • Diepenbeeck, Abraham van, 1596-1675.
Date:
[between 1655 and 1733?]
Reference:
2917582i
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Description

Ovid, Metamporphoses X: 1-85. Orpheus on the right leads the way out of the underworld, playing a violin and escorted by Cupid. Eurydice follows, left, asailed by a fire-breathing dragon and held back by a hand from hell around her thigh

Publication/Creation

[Paris? Amsterdam?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1655 and 1733?]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 25.8 x 19.9 cm

Contributors

Lettering

There is a space for lettering at the bottom of the plate, but there is no lettering

Edition

[State before lettering].

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2917582i

Notes

One print in a series of prints designed by Abraham van Diepenbeeck, published by M. de Marolles in Le temple des Muses, Paris 1655, through engravings by Cornelis Bloemaert, and subsequently copied by Peter de Bailliu (1676) and Bernard Picart (1732-1733) for publication in editions of Ovid's Metamporphoses

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