Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945, British, Pan and Syrinx, 1896
- Title:
- Pan and Syrinx
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Subjects from the Liber Studiorum after J.M.W. Turner
- Date:
- 1896
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/8 × 17 inches (30.8 × 43.2 cm), Plate: 8 1/2 × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm), Image: 7 7/8 × 10 1/2 inches (20 × 26.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Intaglio set FS."
Monogrammed in plate: "S" on shield
Lettered below image, left: "DRAWN BY J.M.W. TURNER R.A."; right: "ETCHED BY FRANK SHORT 1896"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Undetermined
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.8226
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- chasing | forest | grass | landscape | literary theme | Metamorphoses | nymph | reed | religious and mythological subject | river | riverbank | rock | running | satyr | Syrinx changed into a reed: while fleeing from Pan, the nymph Syrinx is changed into a reed by her sisters, the Naiads (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 705) | tree | water
- Associated People:
- Syrinx, nymph and follower of Artemis
Pan (god) - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:30750
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