print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 1850,0810.794
- Title
- Series: Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum
- Description
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The contest between Apollo and Pan; Apollo at right is seated against a tree, playing his lyre; at left Pan is also seated against a tree and plays the pipes; Tmolus in the centre, gestures towards Pan; at left two figures are seated next to Pan, the right figure is probably Midas; a dog lies on the ground next to Apollo; a bow and arrow are hanging on a branch of the tree Apollo sits on; after Giulio Romano
Etching
- Production date
- 1672-1689 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 152 millimetres
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Width: 226 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The etching copies a drawing in reverse, attributed to Giulio Romano, now at Chatsworth. De Bisschop's intermediary drawing is now in the C.J.J.G. Vosmaer collection in Leiden. The drawing shows the composition the same way round as the prototype. Both show cut corners, like the etching. The image was rotated 90º to right to fit page.
For comment on this edition and other volumes in the British Museum see 1850,0810.652.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0810.794