Landscape with Mercury Raising His Sword to Kill a Sleeping Argus

1589

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18.6 x 25.9 cm (7 5/16 x 10 3/16 in.), cut to platemark

  • Accession

    2011.139.150

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 550, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Edward Peart, London (1756 or 1758 - 1826) (Lugt 892). Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 526

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 550, i/ii.

Inscriptions

in plate, across lower edge: Eripit e vivis blando sociata sopori / Custoden Inachie mors inopina bovis / Hoc opus hoc ingens decus est Cyllenidos Harpes / Inonem Maia fallere nate potes

Wikidata ID

Q76559457

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