Theseus lifts a rock 1
- Title:
- Theseus lifts a rock 1
- Collection:
- Cornell Gem Impressions Collection
- Date:
- 19th century
- Site:
- The same subject was engraved for the office of the Duke of Orleans
- Location:
- The same subject was engraved for the office of the Duke of Orleans
- ID Number:
- GI_12_050
- Accession Number:
- 12_3_0071
- Winckelmann No.:
- 71
- Berlin Catalog No.:
- 308
- Inventory No.:
- FG 387
- File Name:
- GI_12_050.jpg
- Stosch Category:
- Category 3 Section 1: Mythical Age
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- casts (sculpture)
carnelian - Subject:
- Theseus
rocks
swords - Description:
- Theseus, with his right foot on a shield, lifts a large rock under which his father has hidden a sword. Theseus is less than 16 years old here and is depicted in an attractive and heroic ancient style.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Archival Collection:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Gems Collection (in part the White Collection of Historical Medallions, #8420, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying material, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2013 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Caitlin Barrett and Verity Platt. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.