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Meleager and Atalanta: P.14997-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Meleager and Atalanta
Houghton Gallery

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Earlom, Richard
Publisher: Boydell, John
Painter: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

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Description

After the painting now attributed to Workshop of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Theodoor van Thulden (1606-1669), (c.1635, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg [as, 'Meleagr and Atalanta Hunting'], ??-9647; related to the canvas by Rubens, Atalanta and Meleager hunting the Calydonian Boar, 1635-40; Prado, Madrid, P001662). The composition is seen in reverse with Atalanta to the left, having just fired her arrow into the hide of the Calydonian boar, her dogs leaping onto the animal, and Meleager with his spear to the right, preparing to kill the boar.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by the Rev. R. E. Kerrich, 1872 (received 1873)

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1873) by Kerrich, Richard Edward

Dating

18th Century#
Production date: 1781-01-01 AD 1781

Note

Mezzotint, printed in black ink. As published. Fully-lettered. Lettered with artists' names in the margin at lower left: 'Rubens Pinxit. / G. Farington delin.t' and lower right: 'Rich.d. Earlom Sculpsit.'. Publisher's details and title engraved to either side of the Earl of Orford's arms: 'John Boydell excudit 1781' / [in closed roman capitals] 'MELEAGER AND ATALANTA. / [in engraved italics] In the Gallery at Houghton / Size of the picture 10f, 7i by 20f 9 1/2i in length / Published Jan.y 1st 1781 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside London.' Inscribed in graphite in the margins at lower right: 'N.56 / 67 Kerrich'. Inscribed in graphite in large script on the verso: '355'. Inscribed in graphite on the verso, a price '1-1-0' and '33'. An impression of the first state before title is in the second of the two Boydell Houghton volumes bequeathed in 1816 by Lord Fitzwilliam; 'A Set of Prints Engraved after the Most Capital Paintings in the Collection of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of Russia, Lately in the Possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk, Volume 2'. See, 31.K.8-52.

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14997-R
Primary reference Number: 240044
Wessely (Earlom): 81.II
Nagler (Künstler-Lexicon): 4.56 (p.53)
Lugt: L.1568
Voorhelm Schneevoogt: 228.31.10
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Created: Thursday 9 January 2020 Updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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