The drunken Silenus: P.15014-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The drunken Silenus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hodges, Charles Howard
Publisher: Boydell, John
Publisher: Boydell, Josiah
Painter: Rubens, Peter Paul (After)

Entities

Description

The balding and bearded Silenus, wound around with vines and falling forwards in drunkenness, plucking grapes from a bunch held by a cloven-hoofed Satyr, emerges from a grove of trees at the right with a group of Satyrs and Bacchantes who are drinking from goblets and making music with tambourines and flutes. Putti are with them, one of whom is urinating onto the ground whilst three others gorge themselves on grapes and other fruits. A tiger or lion approaching from the left has leapt up to grab the grape vine in its jaws.

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: 1789-08-01 AD 1789

Note

Mezzotint. Proof before title. Lettered with artists' names in italics in the margin at lower left: 'Rubens Pinxit.' and lower right: 'C.H. Hodges Sculpsit.' Publisher's details engraved at lower centre: 'Publish'd Aug.st 1st. 1789. by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside. & at the Shakespeare Gallery. Pall Mall. London'. Inscribed in graphite at lower right (curatorial hand): '59/60 / Kerrich'. Inscribed in the margins at lower right: 'N.7 [Nagler] / ?57' and in pen and ink in the margins at lower right: 'Silenus'.

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.15014-R
Primary reference Number: 240077
Nagler (Künstler-Lexicon): 6.7 ('Der betruknene Silen, nach Rubens')
Voorhelm Schneevoogt: 135.142
Chaloner Smith: undescribed
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