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Phaeton’s Sister Changed into Poplars and Cygnus into a Swan
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Hendrick Goltzius

Phaeton’s Sister Changed into Poplars and Cygnus into a Swan

1589

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Hendrick Goltzius

Phaeton’s Sister Changed into Poplars and Cygnus into a Swan

1589

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 180 x 260 mm. (7 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.) Plate: 175 x 253 mm. (6 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.12062

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "4"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns beginning "Excipit Eridanus Phäetonta tepentibus [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9156"; center in graphite "B 54/4 vol 3 P106"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius

1557–1616

Dutch, 1558-1617
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