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Artist: After Tibaldi Pellegrino (Italian 1527-1596)
Engraver: Jan de Bisschop (Dutch 1628-1671)
Title: Polyphemus and the Flight of the Greeks
Medium: Copperplate Engraving on Laid Watermarked Paper
Image Size: Height 17 cm x Width 13.7 cm. (Note: this item is not framed but is supplied in an acid-free mount).
Sheet Size: Height 30.8 cm x Width 22.7 cm.
Condition: Good, has been cleaned, small blemish of old mat burn and a small repaired tear to the centre left edge of the print. Both the faint mat burn and tear are easily concealed by the mount.
About: This copper plate engraving of the famous giant of Greek mythology, Polyphemus the Cyclops, is by Jan de Bisschop (Dutch 1628-1671) artist and engraver, after the original painting by the Italian artist Tibaldi Pellegrino (Italian 1527-1596). This is a very nice, dense and clean impression with wide margins on the paper.
According to the Greek poet Homer, the giant was the son of Poseidon, the sea god, and the nymph Thoosa. He inhabited the island, which is now known as Sicily. While contemporary depictions of the Cyclops assume a humanoid with a single, huge eye, the classical and Renaissance portraits of Polyphemus show a giant with two empty eye sockets where human ocular organs would be, and a single eye centred above them as this work does.
Artist: After Tibaldi Pellegrino (Italian 1527-1596)
Engraver: Jan de Bisschop (Dutch 1628-1671)
Title: Polyphemus and the Flight of the Greeks
Medium: Copperplate Engraving on Laid Watermarked Paper
Image Size: Height 17 cm x Width 13.7 cm. (Note: this item is not framed but is supplied in an acid-free mount).
Sheet Size: Height 30.8 cm x Width 22.7 cm.
Condition: Good, has been cleaned, small blemish of old mat burn and a small repaired tear to the centre left edge of the print. Both the faint mat burn and tear are easily concealed by the mount.
About: This copper plate engraving of the famous giant of Greek mythology, Polyphemus the Cyclops, is by Jan de Bisschop (Dutch 1628-1671) artist and engraver, after the original painting by the Italian artist Tibaldi Pellegrino (Italian 1527-1596). This is a very nice, dense and clean impression with wide margins on the paper.
According to the Greek poet Homer, the giant was the son of Poseidon, the sea god, and the nymph Thoosa. He inhabited the island, which is now known as Sicily. While contemporary depictions of the Cyclops assume a humanoid with a single, huge eye, the classical and Renaissance portraits of Polyphemus show a giant with two empty eye sockets where human ocular organs would be, and a single eye centred above them as this work does.