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Mercury Killing Argus (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 NumberB1725
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 049 (engravings after designs by Goltzius)
Signed
Not signed
Marks
No watermark; verso, purple MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, with accession number in ink: 1725
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower margin, left: Eripit e viuis blando sociata sopori/Custodem Inachie mors inopina bouis.; right: Hoc opus ingens decus est Cyllenidos Harpes,/Junonem Maia fallere nate potes.; lower left: 39.
ProvenanceBefore 1899, William P. Babcok (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA.