Mucius Scaevola

1586

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.4654

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 166, State i/ii

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. 166, i/ii.

Inscriptions

lower left, in image, in plate: HG. fecit; numbered, lower left in plate: 3; in margin below image, in plate: Errorem caedis pensat dum Mutius igne, / Vendicat Iliacos obsidione lares. / Civibus absumpta dedit hoc si Scaevola dextra, / Quae Iove non laesam restituente daret? (Because Mucius makes amends in the fire for his murder of the wrong man, he relieves the houses of Troy's descendants from the siege. If Scaevola achieved all this for his fellow citizens by sacrificing his right hand, what would he then achieve if Jupiter were to restore him without an injured hand?) [Latin translation from Leeflang, Huigen, and Ger Luijten. Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2003, p. 90.]

Wikidata ID

Q64957598

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