Plate 101: Bacchus Granting Midas's Wish (Ob restitutum Silenum Midae a Baccho Defertur optio), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Antonio Tempesta
Artist bio: Italian, Florence 1555–1630 Rome
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1606
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 4 5/8 in. (10.5 × 11.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession year: 1951
Tags: Soldiers|Kings|Midas|Bacchus|Horses