Hendrick Goltzius
Plate 17 from the series “Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book II”
1589
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Hendrick Goltzius
Plate 17 from the series “Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book II”
1589
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 184 x 260 mm. (7 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
Plate: 175 x 250 mm. (6 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12067
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, lower left, in plate "17"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Palladis Actee sacrata [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite indecipherable; lower left in graphite diamond with "9161"; lower center in brown ink "B. 67"
Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: unidentified (coat-of-arms?)
