DETAILS
- Artist
- Hendrick Goltzius
- Date
- 1560
- Medium
- Engraving
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- sheet: 10 5/16 x 7 5/16 in. (26.2 x 18.5 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
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