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Details
- Other Title
- Jason charming the dragon
- Date
- 1663-1664
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching and drypoint
- Edition
- only state
- Dimensions
- 34.2 x 21.6 cm platemark; 50.2 x 37.7 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., [incised plate] "ROSA". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 232.1979
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Salvator Rosa
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About
The subject is based on the account in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in which Medea, who was in love with Jason, helped him in his quest for the Golden Fleece by giving him a magic potion to pour over the dragon that was guarding the treasure.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
The Bitten Image: European etchings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Jul 1980–14 Sep 1980
Piety and Paganism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jul 1991–29 Sep 1991
Forest and field: from Claude to the Barbizon School, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Jul 1995–17 Sep 1995
Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jun 1998–20 Sep 1998
Old Europe: Prints & drawings from the collection 1500-1800, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Jun 2006–06 Aug 2006
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Piety and Paganism, Sydney, 1991, 10. no catalogue numbers
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Nicholas Draffin (Curator), The bitten image: European etchings from the collection, Sydney, 1980, 4. no catalogue numbers
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Renée Free, Forest and field: from Claude to the Barbizon School, 'Classical pastoral landscape', pg. 1, Sydney, 1995, 1, 6. no catalogue numbers
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Peter Raissis, Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian old master prints from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998, 5, 8. no catalogue numbers
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