Anonymous after Hendrik Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617), Mercury Putting Argus to Sleep, 1589. Plate 17 from the series of 52 plates illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses. Engraving. Engraved in the workshop of Goltzius. Plate dimensions 174 x 250 mm. Illustrated Bartsch 47 (vol. 3, p. 355); Bartsch 47 (vol. 2); see Hollstein 16-67 (vol. 1, p. 182) and 10-61 (vol. 7, p. 130) for the series. Accession no. 1968.29.3.17. Purchase funds, 1968. Enlarged captions were treated with an extreme tonal curve for legibility.

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