Hendrick Goltzius
Marcus Curtius on Horseback
1586
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Mount: 369 × 236 mm. (14 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)
Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 366 x 233 mm. (14 7/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 4 from the series "The Roman Heroes"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12077
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "HG. fecit."; in image, lower left, in plate "4."; below image, lower marge, in plate two columns of text, each two lines "Curtius in vastum sese telluris hiatum / Conijcit, vt patria cedat acerba lues. / J'nunc et spernas patrice coelestis amore / Dura pati, et putri sydera vincat humus."; below image, lower right, in plate "F. Estius." Verso of mount: lower left in graphite diamond with "9111"
Markings: CM: Claghorn (on verso of mount)
