Desesperada Mirra se colgo; pero su Nodriza corta el lazo y la libra · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Desesperada Mirra se colgo; pero su Nodriza corta el lazo y la libra
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This engraving illustrates a young girl named Myrrha attempting to kill herself by hanging. She does this due to her sinful thoughts of lusting over her father. Myrrha understood that her thoughts were wrong, so she decided to kill herself to evade her incestuous feelings. Myrrha’s nurse came into the room as she heard moaning, and she cut her from the constricting rope when she saw Myrrha hanging. Myrrha is sitting on the bed in the image crying after she had just been cut loose from the rope. The nurse is depicted consoling the young girl. Reluctantly, Myrrha eventually shares her incestuous thoughts with her loyal nurse who had promised to help her.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25081
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1819)
Image: mta_25081_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Myrrha; Incest; Suicide; Mythology