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Polyhymnia (from The Nine Muses series, 8th of 9 plates)
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
about 1592
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 24.6 x 16.6 cm (9 11/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7246
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 153; Hollstein (Dutch & Hollstein, vol. VIII) 155; Leesberg (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Goltzius, part I) 136 (II/III)
State
II/III
Signed
Signed in plate, lower right: HG fecit
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: 7246 [Lugt 1870]; in graphite: Polymnia/over singing and rhetoric./deemed tghe inventriss/of Harmony [all underlined]
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, within engraved borders, lower left: 8; in lower margin, left: Rethorice fontes, luculentaq verba ministrat/Ore manuq docens gestus formare decoros,; right: Hymnosq et Peana canens Polyhymnia letum,/Aonias inter minime postrema sorores.; lower right: F.E.
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewell (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)