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| Rupert Bunny Tritons 1890 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Jacob de Gheyn III Triton sounding a Conch ca. 1616-20 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous Italian Maker Triton riding Hippocamp 16th century shell cameo Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Monogrammist IB Two Tritons fighting, and Nereid riders ca. 1523-30 engraving British Museum |
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| Giambologna Triton sounding a Conch 1560s bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from The Metamorphoses
Neptune's anger subsided as well. Laying his trident
aside, he calmed the turbulent waters and called upon Triton,
the sea-green merman, who heaved his shoulders, encrusted by nature
with shells of the murex, above the surface, with orders to blow
on his resonant conch and signal the rivers and waves to withdraw.
Triton lifted his hollow horn, which wreathes in a spiral
up from its mouthpiece to broaden out to a bell, the horn
whose notes, when once he has filled it with breath in the midst of the deep,
rebound on the echoing shoreline from east to west. So then,
when the god had raised his instrument up to his lips, with the salt drops
streaming down from his beard, and the blast had sounded the bidden
retreat, it was heard by all the water of land and ocean;
and all the waters by which it was heard were held in check.
– Ovid (8 AD), translated by David Raeburn (2004)
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| Adriaen de Vries Triton sounding a Conch ca. 1615-18 bronze Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Annibale Carracci Triton sounding a Conch ca. 1600 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Annibale Carracci Triton sounding a Conch ca. 1597 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Guido Reni Triton before 1642 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Nicoletta da Modena Triton carrying a Child ca. 1507 engraving British Museum |
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| Matthias Steinl Triton ca. 1685-95 ivory statuette Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| workshop of Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Triton and Nereid ca. 1525 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| follower of Gianlorenzo Bernini Triton with Shell serving as a Salt Cellar ca. 1650-75 gilt copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Doccia Manufactory, Florence Triton 1760s porcelain relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Triton sounding a Conch (study for Triton Fountain, Rome) 1642-43 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |