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Pan Pursuing Syrinx, Who is Changed int a Reed (from a series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses)
about 1589
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 NumberB1724
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 048 (engravings after designs by Goltzius)
Signed
Not signed
Marks
No watermark; verso, purple MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, with accession number in ink: 1724
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower margin, left: Pana fugit Syrinx ripam Ladonis ad vdam/Dumq fugit numen flumnis orat opem; right: Vertitur in calamum resonantis arundinis, hunc Pan/Clangentem dulci flamine semper amat.; in ink, lower left and right: [?]
ProvenanceBefore 1899, William P. Babcok (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA.