Ascalaphus, Peter Vos, 2003

Title(s)

Ascalaphus (title on object)

Object type

• drawing

Serial number

1

Object number

RP-T-2010-56-6

Edition

1

Catalogue reference

• PV T-2003-RP(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• title: ‘ASCALAPHUS’
• signature: ‘VOS’
• date: ‘16-X-'03’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

De gedaanteverwisseling van een man (Ascalaphus), die in zes stadia in een ransuil verandert.

Artist

• draughtsman: Peter Vos (signed by artist)

Place

Netherlands

Dating

16-Oct-2003

Material

• paper
• pencil
• India ink (ink)
• watercolor (paint)

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 160 mm × width 241 mm

What

• owls
• Ascalaphus changed into a screech-owl: as punishment for discovering she had eaten some pomegranates, Proserpina sprinkles water from the Phlegethon on Ascalaphus' head, thus changing him into a screech-owl (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 543)

Acquisition

purchase 2009

Copyright

erven Peter Vos

Related

• Ascalaphus
• Ascalaphus

• Peter Vos : metamorfosen, Eddy de Jongh, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Saïda Vos, Peter Vos, p. 108, afb. 121
• Peter Vos : métamorphoses, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Eddy de Jongh, Saïda Vos, p. 108, afb. 121