Hendrick Goltzius
Battus Changed into a Stone
1589
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 179 x 255 mm. (7 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Plate: 174 x 252 mm. (6 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12066
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 "16"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Septenis Phebo inflatur [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9160"; center in graphite "B66/16 vol 3 P107"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
