Tityos bound to a rock, his liver eaten by a vulture. Engraving after Michelangelo.

  • Michelangelo
Date:
[between 1550 and 1559?]
Reference:
43631i
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Publication/Creation

[Rome] : Ant. Lafreri formis, [between 1550 and 1559?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 27.7 x 41.7 cm

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Lettering

Titius gigas a wlture diversisq(ue) penis laceratus. M. Ang. invent.

Edition

[State described by Bartsch as with added imprint of Lafrery].

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, pp. 259-260, under no. 39 (as a copy in reverse after an engraving generally attributed to Beatrizet)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 43631i

Reproduction note

After a drawing by Michelangelo in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle (no. RCIN 912771), with variations, in the same direction, i.e. with the head of Tityos on the left

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