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Date:

1592

Artist:

Hendrick Goltzius
Dutch, 1558–1617

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius

Title

Urania, The Muse of Astronomy, from The Nine Muses

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)

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1592

Medium

Engraving on laid paper

Inscriptions

Numbered, lower left: "9". Lettered, lower right: "HGoltzius Invent. et sculpt."; and below image: "Uranie coeli motus ... ferale cometes. F. E."

Dimensions

Sheet (trimmed): 24.9 × 16.8 cm (9 13/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds

Reference Number

2023.201

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