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Mercury Silencing Battus
Public Domain

Herman van Swanevelt

Mercury Silencing Battus

1619

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Herman van Swanevelt

Mercury Silencing Battus

1619

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 200 x 269 mm. (7 7/8 x 10 9/16 in.) Plate: 195 x 264 mm. (7 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.4789

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "4 H: swaneúelt fecit Rome". Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "2547"

Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: large oval with figures

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