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Mercury Playing to Argus
Landscape with Mercury Lulling Argus to Sleep (from the series Landscapes with Biblical and Mythological Scenes)
Mercury Playing to Argus
Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
After: Matthijs Cock (Netherlandish, about 1509–before 1548)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
After: Matthijs Cock (Netherlandish, about 1509–before 1548)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
about 1551 - before 1558
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 22.8 x 32.2 cm (9 x 12 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number63.2798
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. IV) 013; Riggs 42
Signed
Signed in plate, lower right: H • COCK • FE
Marks
Watermark: large hand with cuff; verso, in black ink: C. Wiesböck/848 [Lugt 2576]; in graphite 51/6; WO[?]x; J-vga; a62619 [underlined]; 74; [?]u 525; MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 63.2798
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower center: Argum Mercurius somnolentu reddit.
ProvenanceCarl Wiesböck (b. 1811 -d. 1874; Lugt 2576), Vienna. William Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955; Lugt 3593), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1963, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 30, 1963)