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Aeneas and Mercury (from "The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis," 1697)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

Aeneas and Mercury (from "The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis," 1697)

Wenceslaus Hollar|Franz Cleyn|Virgil

Date
1654
Medium
Etching and engraving; fifth state of five, the plate reduced, as published in 1697 or 1698
Dimensions
Plate: 10 1/4 × 7 11/16 in. (26 × 19.5 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (35.2 × 20 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
63.601.13
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London|German, Rostock 1582–1658 London|Roman, Andes 70 BCE–19 BCE Brundisium

Subjects and terms

  • Ruins
  • Aeneas
  • Mercury
  • Coat of Arms
  • Ladders

The Met object ID 380572. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.