[Prometheus making man and animating him with fire from Heaven]

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Title: [Prometheus making man and animating him with fire from Heaven]
Inventor: [Goltzius, Hendrick, 1558-1617]
Printer/Publisher: Goltzius, Hendrick, 1558-1617
Other personalities: [Estius, Franco, active 1580-1594 (writer)] ; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. (writer)
Medium: Graphic
Edition/Print Statement: Edition Statement 1 ed.
Name of publisher: HG excud.
Place of publication: Haarlem]
Date of publication: [1589]
Physical description: 1 print : Engraving ; plate mark 173 x 252 mm. on sheet 688 x 480 mm.
Language: Latin
Inscriptions: In lower image : "HG excud." ; in lower margin : "2" ; "Altitonans postquqm certos (…) flammas, animatque Prometheus
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L.240d
Pr.[2] of : [Goltzius, Hendrick, 1558-1617], Metamorphoses, Liber I
Topical Term: Animals
Heaven
Landscapes
Location: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
: Fondo Antico
: Stampe.V.95(2)
Series' component: Stampe.V.95(1-6,8-10,13-14,23-24)
Album's component: Stampe.V.95
Bibliography: New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca 1450-1700, Amsterdam, Hendrick Goltzius, part III, p.227, n.533

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