Hendrick Goltzius
Melpomene (The Muse of Tragedy), Plate 3

CultureDutch
Titles
  • Melpomene (The Muse of Tragedy), Plate 3
  • from the series The Nine Muses
Date1592
MediumEngraving on laid paper, state II/V
DimensionsPlate/Sheet: 9 13/16 × 6 5/8 in. (25 × 16.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the members of the Prints and Drawings Subcommittee in memory of Dr. Marjorie G. Horning and the Marjorie G. and Evan C. Horning Print Fund
Object number2020.54.3
Non exposé

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Provenance[Kupferstichsammlung Loening [Lugt 4807]; Private Collection; [Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings, LLC, as of 2019-2020]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Numbered and signed in ink, in plate, bottom: 3 / HG Fecit.
Recto: Inscribed in ink, lower margin: Melpomene ostendit numeros ... / ... Tragico possent instructa cothurno. / F.E.
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom left: 2579 [encircled]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom left: B158
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom left: EF / 101/ B
Verso: Watermark, bottom center: Two-towered gate with portcullis and double-headed eagle and letters W and H appended (Piccard Vol. III / Trum Wasserzeichen: Abteilung XV No. 268 / 1592-1596 Ettenheim, Offenburg, Wesel)

Verso: Collection Stamp in blue ink, bottom center: Kupferstichsammlung Loening [encircled] [Lugt 4807]
Catalogue raisonnéBartsch 146-154; Hollstein 148-156; New Hollstein 129 II/IV; 130-131, 133, 135-136 II/III; 132, 134, 137 I/II (first edition published by Goltzius; four subsequent editions are listed)

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