- Artist: Cornelis Cort
- Artist: Frans Floris
- Publisher: Gerard de Jode
Pluto Carries off Proserpina
1564
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Mount: 351 × 423 mm. (13 13/16 × 16 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 278 × 209 mm. (10 15/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Plate: 263 × 195 mm. (10 3/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series 'The Story of Pluto and Proserpina'
Credit Line
Gift of Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number
1999.411
Stiles Colwill, Lutherville, Maryland
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: In plate: BR of image, 'Ex Pergusa Hecaten rapit'/'as sua tartara Pluto', '2'; BRC, in plate, 'FFloris inve'; BCE, '1564'. Verso, TC, in graphite, 'WB4 dat'?; BLC, in brown ink, 'F Floris'. Verso mount: CR, in graphite, 'F Floris Painter'; BR, in graphite, 'D. had more by Floris'. BC, in graphite, 'Perhaps the Loves of the Gods [...illegible] John Smith + M. Antonio' / 'but this is not by him'
Markings: none - TC, dragon?
