Mercury Killing Argus, number 19 of 52; from the series "The Creations of the Four Elements" (Goltzius' series illustrating Ovid's "Metamorphoses")
after Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558 - 1617
about 1589
Engraving on laid paper
Overall: 7 × 10 in. (17.8 × 25.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Robert L. McGrath
PR.983.24.2
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: 19; inscribed, in plate, lower left center: Eripit d viuis blando sociata sopori / Custodem Inachie mors inopina bouis .; lower right center: Hoc opus, hoc ingens decus est Cyllenidos Harpes, / funonchi Maia fallere nate potes.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch no.49 (105); Ho. 526.
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