The wedding of Cupid and Psyche
1587
Medium
engraving
Measurements
40.9 × 85.3 cm (image and sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1925
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 341 ii/iv (Goltzius); Bartsch 277; Strauss 255 i/iv or ii/iv; Hollstein 322 ii/iv; Hirschmann 322 ii/iv
Edition
2nd of 4 states
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.c.l.: ILLU: ET GEN. D. D. / WOLFGANGO RVMPE / LIBERO BARONI A WIEL / ROS ET WEITTRACH &c. / Sac. Cæs. Maiest, à Consilys / intimo et supremo cubiculari / B. Spranger Inue. et HGoltzius (HG monogram) / sculp. se qɜ (qɜ joined) officiosissimè comen (line above m) - / dant suamqɜ (qɜ joined) hanc qualemcúnqɜ (qɜ joined) / operam. D.D.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: BARTOVS. (. under VS) SPRANGERS ANTVS. (. under VS) / INVEN. ANNO. 1587. / HGoltzius (HG monogram) sculp. et excud.
Accession Number
1491-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings