Mercury Playing Argus to Sleep (from a series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses)

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Mercury Playing Argus to Sleep (from a series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses)

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

Medium/Technique Engraving

Dimensions Sheet: 17.3 x 25 cm (6 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession NumberB1723

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 047 (engravings after designs by Goltzius)

Signed Not signed

Marks Verso, purple MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, with accession number in ink: 1723

InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower margin, left: Centum oculis vigilem Tegees illusit alumnus,/Æterniq astu iussa parentis obit.; right: Fallaci cantus modulamine deperit argus,/Insomnem sopit fitula blanda virum.; in ink, lower left and lower right: .17.

ProvenanceBefore 1899, William P. Babcok (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA.