PrintsDutch16th century

Bacchus

c. 1595

Artists

Hendrick GoltziusArtist

Classification

Prints

Technique

Engraving

Medium

Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper

Culture

Dutch

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

plate: 25 × 18.3 cm (9 13/16 × 7 3/16 in.) sheet: 26.6 × 19.5 cm (10 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Lloyd, London, Sold at Sotheby's, 1820. Sale, 11 December 1820. Inscribed, verso: Robert Balmano 23 Morrington Place Regents Park / at Mr Lloyd's 2d Sale at Sothebys 11 Dec: 1820 12/- for 3 & the portrait by Edelinck. Presumably the other two of the "3" were the Venus and Ceres that complete the set. Robert Balmanno, (213), purchase at Lloyd sale, 11 December 1820, 1820. A. L. Blum, (79b).

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