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Object Type
Museum number: R,2.80
Description: Mercury seated beside the sleeping Argus drawing his sword, while four cows graze behind him and a dog sits in the foreground; after Jacob Jordaens Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert; After: Jacques Jordaens
School/style
Production date: 1630-1659
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 420 millimetres; Width: 522 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: After the painting in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, inv.no.H679.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (284); d'Hulst 1993 / Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). I: Paintings and Tapestries; II: Drawings and Prints (A26)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Hermes/Mercury; Representation of: Argus
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: R,2.80

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