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  • Title: Arcas Preparing to Kill His Mother
  • Creator: Anonymous after Hendrick Goltzius
  • Date Created: ca. 1590
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed with verse by Franco Estius
  • Set or Series Title: Metamorphoses (illustrations for the work by Ovid)
  • Print State: Undescribed first state
  • Object Type: Prints, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1968
  • Materials & Techniques: Engraving on laid paper. Watermark: No watermark
  • Keywords: illustration, illustrations, literature (writings), mythology, nudes
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Edition: Published by Goltzius
  • Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 176 mm x 256 mm (6.93 in. x 10.08 in.).
  • Bibliography: Bartsch 59 (vol. 2); Illustrated Bartsch 59 (vol. 3, p. 357); for the series, see Hollstein 16–67 (vol. 1, p. 182) and 10–61 (vol. 7, p. 130); see also description attached to original DAC catalog card
  • Associated People: Created by Anonymous, After Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617)
  • Accession Number: 1968.29.3.29

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