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Phaeton Demanding of the Sun to Draw His Chariot

Hendrick Goltzius, Claes Jansz Visscher

Phaeton Demanding of the Sun to Draw His Chariot

1589

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Hendrick Goltzius, Claes Jansz Visscher

Phaeton Demanding of the Sun to Draw His Chariot

1589

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 177 x 255 mm. (6 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.) Plate: 174 x 254 mm. (6 7/8 x 10 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.12060
One from a series of twenty numbered plates from the workshop of Hendrick Goltzius (possibly engraved by Jacob Matham, Jan Saenredam, Jan Muller, Jacques de Gheyn, and Pieter de Jode); nine from the series are in the Garrett Collection, see: 1946.112.12060 - 1946.112.12068. In addition, the Garrett Collection holds eight prints from the related series of "Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book I" (1946.112.12052 - 1946.112.12059).

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper center, in plate "OVIDII METAM. LIB. II."; in image, lower right, in plate "HGoltius invent. CIVißcher excud. Ao 1590."; below image, lower left, in plate "1"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns beginning "Tecta petit Phaeton [...]"; below image, lower right, in graphite "21"; below image, lower right, in plate "F. Estius" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9154"; lower center in graphite "19-20"; lower right in graphite "100"; lower right in graphite "wo"

Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: jug surmounted by grapes

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, 1558-1617
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Publisher

Claes Jansz Visscher

Dutch, 1586/1587-1652
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