Requires Photography
Clio (from the Nine Muses series)
about 1592
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
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
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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