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Juno Turning Calysto into a Bear

Hendrick Goltzius

Juno Turning Calysto into a Bear

1589

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Hendrick Goltzius

Juno Turning Calysto into a Bear

1589

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 180 x 257 mm. (7 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.) Plate: 175 x 254 mm. (6 7/8 x 10 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.12063
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: in image, lower left, in plate "8"; in image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Magna Jouis coniux miré [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9157";

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, 1558-1617
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