Thetis placing Achilles in the fire

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Maker

(artist)
1658-1736
(printmaker)
1673 - ca. 1750 (Life dates)
(publisher)
1663-1724 (Life dates)

Title

Thetis placing Achilles in the fire

Date of Production

(?) 1721

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.3 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

Object Number

B.1990.WL.1.4

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : V. Ianssens invent. del. I. B. Probst Sculp. / Quo mortale genus Thetidos deponeret infans, / Sub flammis noctu condere Sveta fuit. / Achilles ruht ben Nacht, im feuer unversehret / Und wird, was sterblich ist, an ihm, hierdurch verzehret. / 4. //

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