Hendrick Goltzius
The Age of Silver
1588
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 180 x 256 mm. (7 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Plate: 176 x 252 mm. (6 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12054
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 "4"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Sub Joue deterior [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9148"; lower left in graphite "B [indecipherable] 34 / 4"
Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: partial, unidentified
On View at the BMA
