Corriendo Euridice por un prado con otras ninfas es mordida por una serpiente y muere · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Corriendo Euridice por un prado con otras ninfas es mordida por una serpiente y muere
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Thrace; Ancient Greece
Description: This engraving depicts the new wife of Orpheus, Eurydice, surrounded by naiads. While taking a walk with the naiads one day, Eurydice had stepped on a poisonous snake that had been hiding in the grass. This is depicted in the engraving, with Eurydices’ hands in the air in shock, with her head facing the snake to look at what had bit her. One of the naiads is depicted catching Eurydice as she falls and the other naiads look shocked. The snake bites Eurydice and the venom kills her, which results in her husband, Orpheus, going to the Underworld to try to save her.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25041
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_25041_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Eurydice; Orpheus; Naiads; Snakes; Mythology