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Vulcan (from Eight Antique Gods series, 1 of 8 plates)

Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
After: Polidoro da Caravaggio (Italian, about 1497–about 1543)
about 1592

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 35.4 x 21.3 cm (13 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7277
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 252; Hollstein 299; Leesberg (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Goltzius, part II)
State II
Signed Signed in plated, lower right: HGoltzius Sculp.
Marks No watermark; verso: collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 7277 [Lugt 1870]
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper center: VVLCANVS.; lower left: L Polidorus Inue.; on column base, lower right: 2
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.