Pan en Syrinx, Bernard Picart (workshop of), 1733 print Pan chases the Nymph Syrinx. She prayed to escape a transformation to the God, on which her sisters have changed her into Riethalmen. In the margin the title in French, English, German and Dutch. The performance is decorated with an ornamental edge. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving Syrinx changed into a reed: while fleeing from Pan, the nymph Syrinx is changed into reed by her sisters, the Naiads (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 705). scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament

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