Hendrick Goltzius
Prometheus Making Man and Animating Him with Fire from Heaven
1589
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Hendrick Goltzius
Prometheus Making Man and Animating Him with Fire from Heaven
1589
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Mount: 186 x 257 mm. (7 5/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 186 x 257 mm. (7 5/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 2 from the series "Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book I"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12052
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate "HG. excud."; below image, lower left, in plate "2"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Altitonans postquam certos [...]"; below image, lower right, in graphite indecipherable Verso: center in graphite "B32 / 2 P 104"; lower left in graphite diamnd with "9146"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
