The Untangling of Chaos, from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book 1)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius

Title

The Untangling of Chaos, from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book 1)

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)

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1589

Medium

Engraving on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered within image, upper center: "Ovidii Metam. Lib. I"; lower left: "H Goltzius inve Ao 1589" below image: "1. E tenebris deforme ... subit ultima Tellus. F. Estius"

Dimensions

Plate: 17.7 × 25.4 cm (7 × 10 in.); sheet (approximately): 26 × 33.2 cm (10 1/4 × 13 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds

Reference Number

2023.1232.1

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