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Phaeton's Sisters Changed into Poplars, and Cygnus into a Swan (from a series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses)
School of: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 17.4 x 25.1 cm (6 7/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1728
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 054
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Verso, purple MFA Babcock Bequest stamp, with accession number in ink: 1728
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in lower margin, left: Excipit Eridanus Phäetonta tepentibus vdis/Fulmineo excussuui celitus igne Fouis.; right: Deplorant tumulum Clymene, Heliadesqz soreres,/Quas Dy populea fronde repente tegunt.; lower left: 4
ProvenanceBefore 1899, William P. Babcok (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA.