The affliction of Tantalus Tantalus, king of Lydia, is punished for offend the gods: he lived at a waterhole who retired when he wanted to drink and a fruit tree that he could not accomplish if he was hungry. He was suffering eternal hunger and thirst. In the margins of the title in French, English, German and Dutch. The show is decorated with ornamental rand. Manufacturer : printmaker: Bernard Picart (studio) supervision: Bernard Picart (listed property) Place manufacture: Amsterdam Date: 1733 Physical features: etching and engra printed on two sheets of material: paper Technique: etching / e
The affliction of Tantalus Tantalus, king of Lydia, is punished for offend the gods: he lived at a waterhole who retired when he wanted to drink and a fruit tree that he could not accomplish if he was hungry. He was suffering eternal hunger and thirst. In the margins of the title in French, English, German and Dutch. The show is decorated with ornamental rand. Manufacturer : printmaker: Bernard Picart (studio) supervision: Bernard Picart (listed property) Place manufacture: Amsterdam Date: 1733 Physical features: etching and engra printed on two sheets of material: paper Technique: etching / engra (printing process) Dimensions: plate edge: h 252 mm × W 179 mm x h 356 mm (ornamental border) b × 268 mm (ornamental border) also note Print used as an illustration in: Beaumarchais, Antoine de La Barre de. Le Temple des Muses: orné 60 tableaux où sont les representes événemens les plus de l'remarquables antiquité fabuleuse. Amsterdam: Zacharias Chatelain (II), 1733. Subject: Tantalus, suffering eternal hunger and thirstscrollwork, strap work ~ ornament
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