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The Age of Gold (from a series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses)

School of: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
Designed by: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
about 1589

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 16.5 x 25 cm (6 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1719
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 033 (engravings after designs by Goltzius)
Signed Not signed
Marks No watermark; verso, purple MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, with accession number in ink: 1719
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower margin, trimmed off
ProvenanceBefore 1899, William P. Babcok (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)