Hendrick Goltzius
The Visitation
1592
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Hendrick Goltzius
The Visitation
1592
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Mount: 486 x 370 mm. (19 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.)
Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 475 x 353 mm. (18 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12046
One from a series of six prints "The Birth and Early Life of Christ" (1593-94), also known as the "Meisterstiche," or "Life of the Virgin" in the manner of various artists (see notes for additional details); the complete series is in the Garrett Collection (1946.112.12045 - 1946.112.12050).
Melion, Walter. "Karel van Mander's 'Life of Goltzius:' Defining the Paradigm of Protean Virtuosity in Haarlen around 1600," in Studies in the History of Art, 27 (1988) pp 113-123.
Melion, Walter. "Hendrik Goltzius's Project of Reproductive Engraving," Art History, 13, no 1 (December 1990), pp. 458-473.
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "2"; in image, lower right, in plate "1593 / HG"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Plena Deo Virgo, [...]"; below image, lower right, in plate "F. Estius"; below image, lower right, in graphite "2" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9099 / 2"
Markings: CM: Claghorn (on verso of mount)
