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Hendrick Goltzius

The Age of Iron

1588

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Hendrick Goltzius

The Age of Iron

Hendrick Goltzius

The Age of Iron

1588

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 176 x 252 mm. (6 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.) Plate: 174 x 249 mm. (6 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Garrett Collection

Object Number 1946.112.12056

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 "6"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of Latin in two columns by Estius, beginning "Ferreus hinc fremuit [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9150"

Markings: CM: none

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Hendrick Goltzius

1557–1616

Dutch, 1558-1617

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