Landscape with Mercury Raising His Sword to Kill a Sleeping Argus, 1589

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series Title

Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1 (plate 19)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

2011.139.150

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist after) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Peart, Edward Dr.
Steinberg, Leo, Estate of

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.