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
Engraver: [Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617 (workshop of)]
Inventor: [Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617]
Printer/Publisher: Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617
Medium: print
Edition/Print Statement: Print Statement 1
Name of publisher: HG. excud.
Place of publication: Haarlem]
Date of publication: 1589
Physical description: 1 print : engraving on sheet 180 x 252 mm. (trimmed inside platemark)
Materials: paper
Language: Latin
Country: [Netherlands]
Inscriptions: Numbered in lower left corner: "2"; in lower margin in two columns: "Altitonans postquam certos … flammas, animatq. Prometheus.".
Annotations: Pr. 2 of: Book I of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Goltzius, Hendrik, 20.A.III.9/1-2; 4-7; 9-18
Collectors' marks: Collector's mark not in Lugt but similar to Lugt 4557; Girolamo Casanate, Lugt 4559
Conservation: good
Personal Name: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Location: Biblioteca Casanatense
: Fondo Stampe e Disegni
: 20.A.III.9/2
Series: Link to mother card
Series' component: 20.A.III.9/1-2; 4-7; 9-18
Album: Link to album description
Album's component: 20.A.III.9
Bibliography: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450 - 1700: Hendrick Goltzius, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel 2012, vol. III, p. 227, n. 533
Link: Collectors' marks url

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