Harmonia en Cadmus Metamorfosen van Ovidius (serietitel) Cadmus and Harmonia leave their city of Thebes for Illyria. In the woods around Illyria decided Cadmus eventually the gods to ask him to change into a serpent, Where: same bath on Harmonia. In the margin of a four-line signature, in two columns, in the Latijn. Manufacturer : print maker: Crispijn of de Passe (I) Place manufacture: Cologne Date: 1602 - 1607 Physical characteristics: engra material: paper Technique: engra (printing process) Measurements: plate edge: h 84 mm × W 132 mm Subject: Cadmus and Harmonia changed into snakes: when loaded with complaint and the infirmity of old age, Cadmus and Harmonia are changed into snakes (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 576)
Harmonia en Cadmus Metamorfosen van Ovidius (serietitel) in the woods around Illyria be Cadmus and his wife Harmonia at age changed by Jupiter into snakes. They embrace elkaar. Manufacturer : printmaker: Crispijn of Passe (II) Publisher: Crispijn of Passe (I) (attributed to) Date: ca. 1636 - 1670 Physical features: engra; proofing material: paper Technique: engra (printing process) Dimensions: h 170 mm × W 230 mmToelichtingDe ambitious set according to designs by, inter alia, Jacob Pynas, Roeland Savery, Pieter Clouwet, Rubens, and Rembrandt is never completed by the De Passes. The series was ended in 1677 in a book published in Brussels by Pierre Du Rayer and Francois Foppes. If loose prints is the set of known only from a group of prints from the collection Hinloopen (1619-1708) which is located in the Rijksprentenkabinet. This group has been extensively described by Jan van der Waals in his Hinloopen catalog (see: An unknown edition of a series Ovid illustrations in the print treasure Michiel Hinloopen, 1988, pp 79-102..). The discovery of a second set of prints of the series, coming from the workshop of Crispin de Passe de Jonge, provides an important addition to the Hinloopen group. Some prints show the prints in an incomplete state and feature improvements and additions in pen and brush. In addition, all prints feature 17th-century inscriptions which in some cases allows further identify the designers of the performances. Under the watermarks, the print can be found dated to around 1652-1653. Subject: Cadmus and Harmonia changed into snakes: when loaded with complaint and the infirmity of old age, Cadmus and Harmonia are changed into snakes (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 576)
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