Glaucus and Scylla

Salvator Rosa
Italy
1615 – 1673

Glaucus and Scylla
c 1661
pen & ink, brush & ink wash on paper
Place made
Rome
Medium
pen & ink, brush & ink wash on paper
Dimensions
20.3 x 15.2 cm (irreg. sheet)
Credit line
V.B.F. Young Bequest Fund 1985
Accession number
856D9
Signature and date
Nil
Media category
Drawing
Collection area
European drawings

  • WALL LABEL: A Beautiful Line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, 2012

     

    It is not clear whether the spirited pen and wash sketch of Glaucus and Scylla was intended as a study for the print or the painted version of this composition. Although it was usual for artists to make a print (or have one made by a professional engraver) after a painting, it appears that Rosa worked in the reverse.  The free, exploratory quality of the sketch suggests it belongs early in the preparatory process, and therefore was made when Rosa started work on the etching.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • A beautiful line. Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 20 August 2010 – 31 October 2010
  • [Book] Hylton, Jane, Robinson, Julie. Hidden Treasures: South Australia's European Old Master Paintings, Restorations and Re-attributions and South Australia's European Old Master Drawings (exhibition checklist).
  • [Book] Zagala, Maria. A Beautiful Line : Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi.