Perseus en Andromeda, Jan Saenredam, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1601

Title(s)

Perseus en Andromeda

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1890-A-15594

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 85-3(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Andromeda, de dochter van een Ethiopische koning, is vastgeketend aan een rots. Op de achtergrond verslaat Perseus het zeemonster om Andromeda te kunnen komen redden.

Artist

• print maker: Jan Saenredam (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• Cornelius Schonaeus (mentioned on object)
• Rudolf II van Habsburg (Duits keizer) (mentioned on object)

Place

Northern Netherlands

Dating

1601

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 259 mm × width 184 mm

What

• Perseus kills the sea monster (or turns it into stone by showing it the Gorgon's head) to release Andromeda; sometimes her parents Cepheus and Cassiopea watch the scene

Acquisition

purchase Apr-1890

Copyright

Public domain

• Jan Saenredam to Roelandt Savery, p. 65, cat.nr. 85