Thisbe Frightened by the Lion, c. 1615

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series Title

Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 3 (plate 9)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 18.5 x 26 cm (7 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.) cut to platemark

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 580, State i/ii

Accession Number

2011.139.135

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Robert de Baudous (publisher) Flemish, 1574/1575 - after 1655

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, lower center: H. G. inv. R'd Baud ex; in plate, along lower edge: Thisbe redi, bon Thisbe redi, nocturna quid exis / Sola dono? dubieq audes te credere sylve? Ni facias, Pijrami nigrescat sanguine Morus, Tuq comes, lethi que Causa, miserrima, fies. / G. Rijckius

Provenance

Dr. Edward Peart, London (1756 or 1758 - 1826) (Lugt 892). Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Peart, Edward Dr.
Steinberg, Leo, Estate of

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: 556

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 580, i/ii.