print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.6836
- Title
- Series: The story of Mercury and Argus
- Description
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Plate 2: Argus guarding his herd; landscape with Argus standing near a brook at centre left, leaning against one of his cows; a goat at far left; an ass and another cow in front of trees in background; from a series of four plates. c.1620-6
Etching
- Production date
- 1620-1626 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 131 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 185 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of four numbered plates, for comment on the series see S.2943.
This is first state before number, for another impression and comment see S.2948.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Sheepshanks.6836
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.6836