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Museum number: W,5.48
Title: Series: The Deities
Description: Tethys reclining in a giant shell chariot pulled by two sea creatures; oval block Chiaroscuro woodcut (lineblock with two tone-blocks, ochre and dull green)
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Production date: 1588-1590 (circa)
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Dimensions: Height: 348 millimetres; Width: 260 millimetres
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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. 4 as 'A Sea Goddess'; N. Bialler, 'Chiaroscuro woodcuts: Hendrick Goltzius and his time', Riksmuseum, Amsterdam and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, ex. cat., 1993, no. 28.IIIa
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (296.IIIa) (Hendrick Goltzius); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (368); Hirschmann 1921 / Hendrik Goltzius, Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes (368); Strauss 1977 / Hendrik Goltzius: the complete engravings and woodcuts (422) (as Venus Marina); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (III.73.235)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: W,5.48

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