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Tethys (from the Demogorgon and the Deities series, 1 of 7 blocks

Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
designed about 1588-1590

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from a line block and one tone block in reddish brown
Dimensions Sheet (cut to oval line block border): 35.1 x 26.5 cm (13 13/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number63.607
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 235, i; Hirschmann 368; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. VIII) 368; Strauss 422; TIB comm. .235; Bialler 1983, cat. no. 7; Leesberg (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Goltzius, part II) 296 (II/IIIb)
Description
Signed Signed in line block, lower right of center: HG. fe.
Marks Watermark: crowns[?]; verso, stamp in red: DUBLETTE ALBERTINA [within a circle; L. 5g]; collector's stamp in brown ink: [W. G. Allen, L. 3590]; MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 63.607; in graphite: (205) Allen; v . 5. [circled]; [1 or 7] 10 (6); [other numbers in graphite difficult to decipher]
ProvenanceBefore 1922, Albertina, Vienna. After 1922, William Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955; Lugt 3593), Boston; May 8, 1963, his bequest to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 8, 1963)