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The Age of Bronze
(1589)
plate 5 from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1 series
Medium
engraving
Measurements
16.5 × 25.1 cm (image) 17.4 × 25.2 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1925
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Haarlem, the Netherlands
Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 536 i/ii
Edition
1st of 2 states
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: (...illeg.)
printed in ink l.c.l.: Oppida cum castris meditari tertia cepit, / Ferrato et Marti sternere Aḧena viam.
Printed in ink l.c.: Et fluctus sulcare feros, ventosqɜ (qɜ joined) furentes / Carbaseo impigré spernere fisa sinu.
Accession Number
1478-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Literary and Text Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
Athena (Greek deity) boats construction (assembling) construction sites construction workers deities weapons