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Tiresias, Having Been Changed into a Woman and Back into a Man, Answers the Question
Hendrick Goltziusca. 1615
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Tiresias, Having Been Changed into a Woman and Back into a Man, Answers the Question
- Creator: Anonymous after Hendrick Goltzius
- Date Created: ca. 1615
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in plate, lower right center: “HG inv. R dBaud. ex.”; inscribed in brown ink in 17th century hand, lower left: “Joan Saenredam Scuplit”; inscribed with verse by G. Ryckius
- Set or Series Title: Metamorphoses (illustrations for the work by Ovid)
- 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 Robert de Baudous
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 176 mm x 255 mm (6.93 in. x 10.04 in.).
- Bibliography: Bartsch 77 (vol. 2); Illustrated Bartsch 77 (vol. 3, p. 359); 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: 1968.29.3.47
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