About the Artwork
Landscape with Mercury Holding the Head of Argus
1558
Hieronymus Cock
1517 or 1518-1570
Netherlandish
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 8 7/8 × 13 inches (22.5 × 33 cm) Sheet: 10 3/4 × 13 3/4 inches (27.3 × 34.9 cm)
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Gift of Bernard F. Walker
68.8
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, lower center of image: Cock fecit 1558
Inscribed, in plate, lower left corner of image: Mercurius Argum interficit.
Provenance
1968-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hieronymus Cock, Landscape with Mercury Holding the Head of Argus, 1558, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Bernard F. Walker, 68.8.
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