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Lycaon Changed into a Wolf by Jupiter (from a series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses)
about 1539
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 17.3 x 25.1 cm (6 13/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1720
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 039 (engravings after designs by Goltzius)
Signed
Not signed
Marks
No watermark; verso, purple MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, with accession number in ink: 1720
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in lower margin, left: Igne Lycaonias deuastat Juppiter edes,/Ille fugit rapidum veritur inq lupum.; right: Syluas et rabiosa petit spelea ferarum,/Visq ferox animo, que fuit antè manet.; in ink, lower left and right: .9.
ProvenanceBefore 1899, William P. Babcok (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA.