Hendrick Goltzius
The River God Peneus Surrounded by Other Divinities
1588
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Hendrick Goltzius
The River God Peneus Surrounded by Other Divinities
1588
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Mount: 182 x 258 mm. (7 3/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 179 x 256 mm. (7 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Plate: 176 x 255 mm. (6 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12058
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 margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Æmonio manans Pindo [...]" Verso of mount: lower left in graphite diamond with "9152"; lower center in graphite "B 45/15 P105"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
