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Battus Changed into a Stone (from a series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses)
School of: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 17.6 x 25.3 cm (6 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 19 x 25.8 cm (7 1/2 x 10 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 19 x 25.8 cm (7 1/2 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1731
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch III.107.66
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Verso, purple MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, with accession number in ink: 1731; in graphite: 1/2/ -
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in lower margin: Septenis Phebo inflatur dum fistula cannis,/Dioxit Atlantiades in iuga celsa boues. right: Indicat hoc Tattus; Maia mox ringitur ortus/Fit Battusqz index ille repente lapis; lower left: 16
ProvenanceBefore 1899, William P. Babcok (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA.