Les Argonautes : selon Pindare, Orphée et Apollonius de Rhodes : en vingt-quatre planches
A set of twenty-four etched plates by Asmus Jakob Carstens, published in Rome around 1799, illustrating the Argonaut myth as told by Pindar, Orpheus and Apollonius of Rhodes for an audience of artists and collectors. The four plates shown are rotated sheets of crowded mythic figures, ships and rocky landscapes drawn in fine, loose outline, suggesting how a designer might use dense multi-figure compositions and linear rhythm for narrative scenes.
