Hendrick Goltzius
The Age of Gold
1588
Scroll
Hendrick Goltzius
The Age of Gold
1588
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Mount: 182 x 262 mm. (7 3/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 182 x 262 mm. (7 3/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Plate: 177 x 252 mm. (6 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12053
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); eight from the series are in the Garrett Collection, see: 1946.112.12052 - 1946.112.12059. In addition, the Garrett Collection holds nine prints from the related series of "Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II" (1946.112.12060 - 1946.112.12068).
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate ".3."; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Aurea Saturno rutilabant [...]" Verso of mount: lower left in graphite diamond with "9147"; center in graphite "B 33/3 P104"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
