Hendrick Goltzius
The Age of Bronze
1588
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 178 x 257 mm. (7 x 10 1/8 in.)
Plate: 175 x 252 mm. (6 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12055
One from a series of twenty numbered plates from the workshop of Hendrick Goltzius (possibly engraved by Jacob Matham, Jan Saenredam, Jan Muller, Jacques de Gheyn, and Pieter de Jode); eight from the series are in the Garrett Collection, see: 1946.112.12052 - 1946.112.12059. In addition, the Garrett Collection holds nine prints from the related series of "Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II" (1946.112.12060 - 1946.112.12068).
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "5"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Oppida cum castris [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9149"; center in graphite "B 35/5 vol 3 P104"; center in black chalk "307 Goltuis"
Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: partial, unidentified
