Apollo doodt Python, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Apollo doodt Python
Python ab Apolline interficitur (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

9/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-133-2

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 646
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

Apollo schiet met pijl-en-boog op Python. Op de achtergrond de zonnewagen van Apollo met vier paarden. Titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.

Artist

• print maker: Antonio Tempesta
• publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu
• publisher: Pieter de Jode (I) (rejected attribution)

Place

print maker: Italy
publisher: Amsterdam
publisher: Antwerp

Dating

1606 - 1638

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 104 mm × width 118 mm

What

• (story of) Apollo (Phoebus)
• Apollo shoots Python, the dragon

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 14, cat.nr. 646
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787