print
- Museum number
- 1919,0616.28
- Description
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Apollo and Marsyas and the Judgement of Midas; reverse copy after Melchior Meier (Hollstein 7); Apollo at centre, holding a flaying knife in his left hand and the skin of Marsyas in his right hand; the flayed Marsyas hanging from a tree at right; Midas with the ears of an ass kneeling at left; satyrs and soldiers in background.
Etching
Watermark: fleur de lys on a shield crowned (cf Briquet 7210)
- Production date
- 1581-1620
- Dimensions
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Height: 232 millimetres
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Width: 313 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM also has the second state of Meier's engraving, see 1925,1215.118.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Acquisition notes
- 1919,0616.1 to 133 were all purchased from Captain Spencer-Churchill at Northwick Park through his solicitors, Messrs Johnson, Raymond-Barker Co, for a total of £655. The collection had been formed by John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick in the 1820s, and had descended to Captain Spencer-Churchill. The earlier provenance of many of the prints is recorded in individual catalogue records.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1919,0616.28