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The untangling of Chaos (or the Creation of the Four Elements)
1589
plate 1 from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1
Medium
engraving
Measurements
16.7 × 25.2 cm (image) 17.9 × 25.8 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark on three sides)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hollstein 508
Edition
2nd edition
Printing/Publishing
published by Claes Jansz. Visscher
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.c.: OVID II METAM. LIB. I.
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: HG(monogram)oltzius inuen / Ao 1589.
printed in ink l.l.: E'tenebris deforme Chaos secessit oborta / Luce suoqɜ (qɜ joined) loco cunt queqɜ (qɜ joined) Elementa locata
printed in ink l.c.: CIVißcher CIV (monogram) excudebat.
printed in ink l.c.r.: Astra polo radiant, quibus imminet ingeus Æther, / Aera subsequitur Pontus, subit vltima Tellus.
Accession Number
3051-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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