Venus and Mercury

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jan Harmensz. Muller

Title

Venus and Mercury

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)

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1595–1605

Medium

Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Printed lower left, in image: ".B. / Sprangers Ant.[us] invent"; lower right, in image: "Joan Muller sculp.". In lower right corner in the margin "HMuller. excud. Amster."; below image, in plate: "Ad Veneris ... perennis aquis."

Dimensions

Image: 37.1 × 27.1 cm (14 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.); Plate: 39.5 × 27.7 cm (15 9/16 × 10 15/16 in.); Sheet: 39.5 × 28.3 cm (15 9/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund

Reference Number

2016.142

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