Accession number
PML 140007, no. 208
Creator
Tardieu, Nicolas Henri, 1674-1749, engraver.
Published
[Paris] : [Chez N. Tardieu rue des Noyers], [1742?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title, with six lines of verse below.
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark.
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 150 x 240 mm; sheet: 183 x 256 mm
Summary
Print after a painting by Coypel, showing Hector bidding farewell to Andromache in a a square in a fortified city with, at center, Hector holding his son Astyanax, who turns round and reaches out to embrace his mother, soldiers surrounding the family, monumental gateway in the background.
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