Hendrick Goltzius and Jan Saenredam
Minerva
1595
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 350 x 264 mm. (13 3/4 x 10 3/8 in.)
Plate: 341 x 254 mm. (13 7/16 x 10 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.13883
One from a series of three numbered engravings, formerly attributed to Jan Saenredam, but now attributed to Hendrick Goltzius. The complete series is in the Garrett Collection (see 1946.112.13883 - 1946.112.13885), along with a second impression of "Venus and Cupid" (1984.81.2700).
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "Cum privil. Sa. Cæ. M. / Anno 1596"; in image, lower center, in plate "HG"; in image, lower right, in plate "1."; below image, lower center in cartouche, in plate, four lines of text (dedication to Johannes Barvitius, privy councillor and secretary to Rudolf II) beginning "Mag.eo ac Clar.mo uiro [...]"; below image, lower left and right, in plate, two columns of text, each two lines (on either side of cartouche) beginning "Quecunq[ue] in terris [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite "No. 15 [three small squares]"; lower left in graphite "6-"; lower left in graphite "3 / [indecipherable]"
Markings: CM: none WM: crowned shield with small tower at bottom, with "WR" below
