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Clymene Urging Phaëton to Find Helios (from a series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses)
about 1589
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 17.5 x 25.1 cm (6 7/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1726
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 050 (engravings after designs by Goltzius)
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Watermark [not identified]; verso, purple MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, with accession number in ink: 1726; in graphite: [?]
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in lower margin, left: Opprobrys Epaphi Phaeton marcescit amaris/Quamq potest Clymenen vt ferat oratopens; right: Illa sui solis radiantia lumina monstras,/Per Styga, perq deos deierat esse patrem.; lower left: 20
ProvenanceBefore 1899, William P. Babcok (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA.