Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 127 x 215 mm. (5 x 8 7/16 in.)
Plate: 100 x 186 mm. (3 15/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Image: 95 x 181 mm. (3 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.13437
Etching, with printed text in German on verso.
Plate first published in 1679 as a headpiece in Ovid, "Metamorphosis, Oder: Des verbümten Sinns der Ovidianschen Wandlungs-Gedichte gründliche Auslegung," ed. Carl van Mander (Nuremberg: Christian Sigmund Froberger, 1679), p. 5. The plate was used again as part of Joachim von Sandrart's "Teutsche Academie."
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower right, in plate "I. I. Sandrart fecit"
Markings: none
