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A triton family in the sea, with a mother and child seated on the back of a half-man, half-sea monster with a child blowing on a conch shell on his shoulders

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A triton family in the sea, with a mother and child seated on the back of a half-man, half-sea monster with a child blowing on a conch shell on his shoulders

Giovanni Battista Palumba

Date
1500–1510
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 7 7/16 × 6 5/16 in. (18.9 × 16 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
28.26.15
Credit line
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Italian, active ca. 1500–1520

Subjects and terms

  • Musical Instruments
  • Children
  • Female Nudes
  • Triton
  • Monsters

The Met object ID 648219. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.