The Insane Athamas Killing Learchus, While Ino and Melicertor Jump into the Sea (Athamas Learchum interficit et Ino Melicertam in aequor praecipitat), from The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum), plate 39
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Artist: Willem Jansz.|Antonio Tempesta
Artist bio: Dutch, active Amsterdam ?1605–20|Italian, Florence 1555–1630 Rome
Artist role: Publisher|Artist
Artist nationality: Dutch|Italian
Date: Published after 1606
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: sheet: 6 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (17.5 x 20 cm)
plate: 5 7/8 x 4 1/2 in. (15 x 11.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of S. Paul Jones, 1935
Accession year: 1935