Marcus Valerius Corvus

1586

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.4653

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 169, State only

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1921

  • Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 169.

Inscriptions

lower left, in image, in plate: HG. fecit; in margin below image, in plate: Magnanimo Coruine tibi grato omine Coruus / Fert opem; atrox Gallus sanguine foedat humum. / Schilicet et Fortuna fauet praestantibus ausis, / Et tangunt magnos fortia facta Deos. F. [ranco] E.[stius] (Noble Corvinus, the Raven gives you help with a congenial portent; the savage Gaul defiles the soil with his blood. Fortune sides with those who try to achieve something great and the great Gods are touched by brave deeds.) [Latin translation from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 90.]

Wikidata ID

Q64957590

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