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The Colossus of Rhodes - Image 1
The Colossus of Rhodes - Image 2
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Philips Galle and Maarten van Heemskerck

The Colossus of Rhodes

1572

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The Colossus of Rhodes

1572

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 212 x 262 mm. (8 3/8 x 10 5/16 in.) Plate: 211 x 256 mm. (8 5/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the series "The Eight Wonders of the World"
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.11813
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; Claghorn Collection
The Walters Art Gallery, "Undercover Stories in Art," 20 April - 1 June 1980.

The Walters Art Gallery, "Pieces of a Renaissance Puzzle: Heemskerck's 'Abduction of Helen'," 17 January - 28 February 1993.

Mark Alice Durant, BMA, "Front Room: Notes on Monumentality," 27 February - 25 May 2008.
Durant, Mark Alice. Front Room: Notes on Monumentality. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2006, unpaged.

Inscribed: lower left in plate: "PGalle Fecit Meemskerck Inut."

Markings: CM: Claghorn

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