Melchior Meier
Apollo Flaying Marsyas
1581
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Mount (false margins): 235 × 318 mm. (9 1/4 × 12 1/2 in.)
Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 228 × 312 mm. (9 × 12 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.7420
Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper center left on tablet, in plate "FRANC. MED. / MA. ETRVR. / D. II. P.B.M. / 15. D.D. 81 / M.M." Verso: upper left in graphite "[indecipherable] - Early German School / Flaying of Marsyas - the only Plate E[indecipherable] by the Artist / Melchior Meier"; upper left in graphite "20[underlined]"; lower left in graphite diamond with "6036"; lower left in graphite "M-"; lower center in graphite "C(?)/4(?)"; lower center in graphite "1581 / German School Melchior Meier"; lower right in graphite "19-25"; lower right in graphite "Ver(?)y(?) 1(?)"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
