Hendrick Goltzius
Mercury Putting Argus to Sleep
1589
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Mount: 180 x 257 mm. (7 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 180 x 257 mm. (7 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Plate: 176 x 256 mm. (6 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 17 from the series "Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book I"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12059
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "17."; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Centum oculis vigilem [...]" Verso of mount: lower left in graphite diamond with "9153"; center in graphite "B 17 P105"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
