Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5135671
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
Silenus gevangen door de herders
Technique
Year
1697
Print run
Signed
Publisher
Dimensions
25,4 x 19,1
Printing office
Details

Etching by Pierre Lombard after Francis Cleyn (ca.1582-1658) depicting Silenus captured by the shepherds. In the foreground Silenus with to his right a woman holding his head and to his left two shepherds. Published in London by Jacob Tonson in 1697 in "The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneid. Translated into English Verse; by Mr. Dryden. Adorn'd with a Hundred Sculptures." Signed in the lower right corner of the print. Numbered 24 at the top.

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