print
- Museum number
- W,5.47
- Title
- Series: The Deities
- Description
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Nox, whole-length, holding a flaming torch and sitting at the front of a coach driven by four bats; she sits besides an owl and above her head is a cock; in the coach is a passenger, the personification of sleep; oval block
Chiaroscuro woodcut (lineblock with two tone-blocks, ochre and dull green)
- Production date
- 1588-1590 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 345 millimetres
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Width: 261 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See C.Ackley, 'Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exh. cat. 1981, no. 3; N. Bialler, 'Chiaroscuro woodcuts: Hendrick Goltzius and his time', Riksmuseum, Amsterdam and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, ex. cat., 1993, no. 32b (suggests that the figure could be Hecate).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2014-15 Sept - Jan.London, BM Witches and Wicked Bodies
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,5.47