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Jupiter and Io (from a series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses)
about 1589
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 17.6 x 25.2 cm (6 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1722
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 046 (engravings after designs by Goltzius)
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Verso, purple MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, with accession number in ink: 1722
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in lower margin, left: Juppiter Inachiden densa caligine stuprat,/Juno sui sensit furta petulca viri.; right: Quod deus aduertens, Iö sub imagine vacce/Occuluit, que pòst de boue facta dea est.; lower left: 16.
ProvenanceBefore 1899, William P. Babcok (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA.