Ovid's Metamorphoses: Fifty plates
Details
After Hendrik Goltzius
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Fifty plates
engravings, 1589-1615, from the set of 52, lacking plates 31 and 36, good to later impressions, with small margins or trimmed variously, pl. 50 heightened in white at the centre (oxidized), some with one or two stains, other minor defects; a duplicate of pl. 31 and one plate from The Medical Profession (B. 13), most laid in album at the upper reverse corners, green marbled boards and leather spine, various defects (album)
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Fifty plates
engravings, 1589-1615, from the set of 52, lacking plates 31 and 36, good to later impressions, with small margins or trimmed variously, pl. 50 heightened in white at the centre (oxidized), some with one or two stains, other minor defects; a duplicate of pl. 31 and one plate from The Medical Profession (B. 13), most laid in album at the upper reverse corners, green marbled boards and leather spine, various defects (album)
Provenance
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2446) on some plates