Minerva verandert Perdix in een patrijs, Virgilius Solis, 1569

Title(s)

Minerva verandert Perdix in een patrijs
Perdix in avem sui nominis (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-22.084(R)

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 2303
• Hollstein German 1822

Description

Daedalus is jaloers op Perdix en duwt hem van de tempel van Minerva. Minerva grijpt in en verandert Perdix in een patrijs.

Artist

• print maker: Virgilius Solis
• publisher: Georg Rab
• publisher: Sigmund Feyerabend
• publisher: erven Weigand Han

Place

print maker: Neurenberg
publisher: Frankfurt am Main
publisher: Frankfurt am Main
publisher: Frankfurt am Main

Dating

1569

Material

• paper

Technique

letterpress printing

Measurements

height 60 mm × width 80 mm × height 100 mm × width 130 mm
height 150 mm × width 183 mm

What

• scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament
• Perdix changed into a partridge: when Perdix (Talus) is thrown from the Acropolis by the envious Daedalus, Minerva changes him into a partridge (Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII 250)

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Val van Icarus

• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part III, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 193, 204, cat.nr. 2303, 1822
• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part II, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 95, 117, cat.nr. 1822