Hendrick Goltzius
Jupiter Taking Counsel from the Gods About the Destruction of the Universe
1588
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Hendrick Goltzius
Jupiter Taking Counsel from the Gods About the Destruction of the Universe
1588
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 172 x 251 mm. (6 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.)
Mount: 172 x 251 mm. (6 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12057
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); eight from the series are in the Garrett Collection, see: 1946.112.12052 - 1946.112.12059. In addition, the Garrett Collection holds nine prints from the related series of "Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II" (1946.112.12060 - 1946.112.12068).
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "8."; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Diuum hominumque parens [...]" Verso of mount: lower left in graphite diamond with "9151"; lower left in graphite "B vol 3 Page 104 / 38/8"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
