print;
book-illustration;
album
- Museum number
- 1983,1001.12.8
- Title
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Object: Andromede
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Series: Cabinet Favereau
- Description
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Mythological scene with a black Andromeda chained to a rock at right, Cupid freeing her from the chains in lower left while Perseus fights the sea monster; after Abraham van Diepenbeeck; from an album containing sixty engravings trimmed and pasted on sheets; illustration on page 315 from Marolles' "Temple des Muses" (Paris, Nicolas Langlois: 1655). c.1635-1638
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1635-1638 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 276 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 178 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of fifty-eight illustrations to Marolles' "Tableaux du Temple des Muses" (Paris, 1655), for comment on the series and the album see 1983,1001.12.1.
Lit.: Elizabeth McGrath, 'The Black Andromeda', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 55 (1992), pp.1-18.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Tableaux du temple des muses tirez du cabinet de feu Mr Favereau, et gravez en tailles-douces par les meilleurs maistres de son temps pour représenter les vertus et les vices, sur les plus illustres fables de l'antiquité, avec les descriptions, remarques et annotations (Paris, 1655)
- Acquisition date
- 1983
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1983,1001.12.8
