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Mercury Flies Away with Argus’s Head
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Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others

Mercury Flies Away with Argus’s Head

1664-1674

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Mercury Flies Away with Argus’s Head

Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others

Mercury Flies Away with Argus’s Head

Mercury Flies Away with Argus’s Head

1664-1674

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 131 x 169 mm. (5 3/16 x 6 5/8 in.) Plate: 114 x 154 mm. (4 1/2 x 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.1363

Signed: 1

Inscribed: On ground at lower right: "G L. f" Below image: "Per Gerardum de Lairesse inv: et sculp: et Per Nicolaum Visscher edit: cum Priv: Ord: Gen: Belgii Fæderati." Lower left corner: "79" Beneath plate mark at left in graphite: "LB 26"

Markings: None

Artist

Gerard de Lairesse

1640–1710

Dutch, 1641 - 1711
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Publisher

Nicolaes Visscher I

1617–1678

Dutch, 1618 - 1679
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Publisher

Nicolaes Visscher II

1648–1701

Dutch, 1649 - 1702
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Publisher

Gerard Valck

1650–1725

Dutch, 1651/52 - 1726
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