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Perseus
Printmaker:
After:
Date:
16–17th century
Location:
Not on display
Century:
Media:
Engraving
Dimensions:
Image: 151 x 238 mm (5 15/16 x 9 3/8 in.) No visible plate mar
Department:
Object Type:
Country:
Continent:
Europe
Accession Number:
1963.30.37161
Acquisition Date:
1963-04-09
Credit Line:
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
In a relief-like scene Perseus holds high the Gorgon's head to turn his pursuers into stone.
Contemporaneous Works “Art from the same century and country”
Prudence, after Raphael, from the series The Seven Virtues (16th century)
Satyr and Nymph (early 16th century)