[Cygnus smothered by Achilles]

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Title: [Cygnus smothered by Achilles]
Engraver: [Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608]
Inventor: [Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608]
Printer/Publisher: [Moretus, Jan, 1543-1610]
Other personalities: [Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589 (publisher)]
Medium: Graphic
Edition/Print Statement: Edition Statement 2 ed.
Name of publisher: [Jan Moretus]
Place of publication: Antwerp]
Date of publication: [1591]
Physical description: 1 print : Etching ; plate mark 70 x 85 mm. on sheet 91 x 120 mm.
Materials: Paper
Country: [Netherlands]
Inscriptions: In image, lower left : "147" ; above the plate : "CYGNVS AB ACHILLE SVFFOCATVS. III."
Annotations: Pr. [147] of : [Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.], METAMORPHOSES ARGUMENTIS BREVIORIBUS
Curatorial Comment: Ovidius Publius Naso, 'Metamorphoses argumentis brevioribus', Antwerp, 1591.
Conservation: Good
Personal Name: Achilles (Mythological character)
Topical Term: Mythology
Narrative poetry, Latin
Geographic: Troy (Extinct city)
Location: Biblioteca Casanatense
: Fondo antico
: 289498/147_p.299
Series: Link to mother card
Series' component: 289498/1-179
Album's component: P.VIII.44 CCC
Bibliography: New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca 1450-1700, Rotterdam, 2006, part IV, p.234, n.1803
Link: Online resource

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