Clio (from the Nine Muses series)

about 1592
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)

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Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch 149; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish) 151

Dimensions

Sheet: 24.7 x 16.7 cm (9 3/4 x 6 9/16 in.)

Accession Number

P7242

Medium or Technique

Engraving

Not On View

Collections

Europe, Prints and Drawings

Classifications

Prints

Inscription

in plate, left of center, within engraved border: 4; in lower margin: Gesta ducum, Regumq canit Parnassia Cleo,/Historicis mandatq modis, et fortia facta/Heroum nè tempus edax, nè conterat etas/Inuidiosa cauet, longumq extentit in Æuum./F.E.

Signed

lower right: HG. fecit.

Markings

watermark [not identified]; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 7242 [Lugt 1870]; in graphite: Clio[underlined]/over History[underlined]./ She had Hyacinthia/by Pierus son of Magnes.

Provenance

Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund

Credit Line

Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund