Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis, 1612

  • Adam Elsheimer, German, 1574-1620
  • Hendrik Goudt, Dutch, 1585-1630

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 8 1/8 × 8 5/8 inches (20.6 × 21.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S555

Stamped, in blue, verso: Josef (Guiseppi) Rocca (Lugt 1204) Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, below image: [Latin inscription] Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [notations]

Josef (Giuseppi) Rocca

Setember 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Fagan, Davis. Handbook for Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. London, 1876, p. 232. Nagler, G. K. Neues Allemeines Kunstler Lexicon. Munchen, 1835-1852, vol. 10.

Hendrik Goudt; after Adam Elsheimer, Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis, 1612, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S555.