Eiland van Polyphemos, Wilhelm Tischbein, c. 1796

Title(s)

Eiland van Polyphemos
Oenotria tellus

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2000-193

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 21

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Description

Weergave van het eiland van Polyphemos, gebaseerd op de omgeving van Napels.

Artist

• print maker: Wilhelm Tischbein

Place

Naples

Dating

c. 1796

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 451 mm × width 355 mm

What

• Ulysses and his companions in the land of the Cyclopes (Homer, Odyssey IX)
• bovine cattle
• forest, wood
• rodents: rabbit
• bunch of grapes

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 2000

Copyright

Public domain

• German printmaking in the age of Goethe, p. 136-137, cat.nr. 86
• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations : ouvrage destiné à faire suite au Manuel du libraire par J.Ch. Brunet, dl. 4, p. 43, cat.nr. 21