The Daughters of Cecrops Open the Casket Entrusted to Them by Minerva, 1590

Not on View

Ovid's Metamorphoses, Part II (plate 12)

engraving on laid paper

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.)

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

2008.55.3

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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

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

Arenberg, A. d', Prince
Hack, Charles

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