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Thetis anointing Achilles with ambrosia

Maker

(artist)
1658-1736

(printmaker)
1673 - ca. 1750 (Life dates)

(publisher)
1663-1724 (Life dates)

Title

Thetis anointing Achilles with ambrosia

Date of Production

(?) 1721

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.2 cm
Width: 13.6 cm

Accession Number

B.1990.WL.1.3

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





ambrosia


Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : V. Ianssens inv. del. Ioh. Balth. Probst Sc. / Scepius Ambrosiae succo madefactus Achilles, / Quod mortale fuit, mittere visus erat. / Achilles Thetis Sohn, durch Ambrosin beschmieren, / Soll, was er sterblichs hat, durch dessen Kraft verlieren. / 3. //

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