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Jupiter Transforming Io into a Cow

Jacopo Caraglio (Italian, 1505–1565)
After: Perino del Vaga (Italian, 1501–1547)
About 1528–30

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 18 x 13.9 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.)(includes the very top of the poem plate, where the tops of several letters are visible)
Platemark: 17.7 x 13.5 cm (6 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP1337
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 09; Illustrated Bartsch 9, i/ii (Illustrated Bartsch catalogues this impression incorrectly as an impression of Copy 2 (a reverse copy))
Marks Verso, lower right, stamped in dark gray ink, the mark of The Rev. J. Burleigh James, Knowbury Park, Shropshire (mid-19th cent.)(Lugt 1425); verso, lower center, stamped in red ink, the mark of Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); verso, lower left, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceThe Rev. J. Burleigh James, Knowbury Park, Shropshire (mid-19th cent.)(Lugt 1425); Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA November 1897