Polyhymnia, Hendrick Goltzius, 1592

Title(s)

Polyhymnia
De negen muzen (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1891-A-16367

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 153-4(5)
• Hollstein Dutch 155-4(5)
• New Hollstein Dutch 136-3(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• signature: ‘HG. fecit.’
• signature: ‘F.E.’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Description

Een serie van negen muzen. Met Latijnse tekst van Franco Estius in de marge onder de prent.

Artist

• print maker: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Hendrick Goltzius
• Franco Estius (mentioned on object)

Place

Haarlem

Dating

1592

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 250 mm × width 168 mm

What

• Polyhymnia (one of the Muses); 'Polinnia' (Ripa)

Acquisition

purchase 1891

Copyright

Public domain

• Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, Huigen Leeflang, dl. I, p. 199-200, cat.nr. 136
• Goltzius-studies : Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), p. 213, cat.nr. 90
• Goltzius - Heemskerck, cat.nr. 155