Hendrick Goltzius
Apollo Killing Coronis
1589
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 180 x 257 mm. (7 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Plate: 177 x 251 mm. (6 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12065
One from a series of twenty numbered plates from the workshop of Hendrick Goltzius (possibly engraved by Jacob Matham, Jan Saenredam, Jan Muller, Jacques de Gheyn, and Pieter de Jode); nine from the series are in the Garrett Collection, see: 1946.112.12060 - 1946.112.12068. In addition, the Garrett Collection holds eight prints from the related series of "Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book I" (1946.112.12052 - 1946.112.12059).
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "14."; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns beginning "Fama malum pernix [...]" Verso: upper right in black chalk "303"; lower left in graphite diamond with "9159"; center in graphite "B 64/14 vol 3 P 107"; center in black chalk "308 Goltius"
Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: unidentified (similar to Arms of Berne?)
