The Daughters of Cecrops Open the Casket Entrusted to Them by Minerva

1590

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Charles Hack

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.8 x 25.5 cm (7 x 10 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 19 x 26.7 cm (7 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.55.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 563, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalia (Lugt 567); Charles Hack, New York; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821, no. 62

1949

  • ollstein, 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, no. 539.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 563, i/ii.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: 12. Mandat Erichtonium Tritonia... / ... Delictum cornix garrula cecrit amis.

Wikidata ID

Q76439075

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