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Title:
Apollo Flaying Marsyas and the Judgment of Midas Object 1
Collection Title: Baillieu Library - Poynton Collection
Alternate Titles:
Apollo Slaying Marsyas
Apollo e Marsin o Apollo e Pan il Gindizio di Re Mida
Accession Number: 1959.3644.000.000
Creator: attributed to Meier, Melchior
Place of birth: Germany
Creation Date: 1581
Object Category: prints
Medium:
engraving
Technique:
intaglio
State: second state
Dimensions:
Type Height Width Depth Diameter Unit (Lengths) Weight Unit (Weight)
plate 22.6 31.3 cm
sheet 36.6 46.7 cm
Inscription: inscribed u.c., printed: "FRANC. MED./MA ETRVR . D. II .P . B. M/ 15 . DD. 81/ M. M [monogram]."
Other Inscriptions: inscribed on Poynton mount l.r. handwritten in pencil: "Apollo & Marsyas"/ Engraved by Melchior Meyer or Meier/ his [illegible] dated 1581."; inscribed l.l. handwritten in pencil: "Bartsch (1920) vol. 16, p.144 (Martin Rota)/ 2nd state, with date."; inscribed l.r corner, stamped: "Poynton."; inscribed l.r.corner, handwritten in ink: "1948."
Catalogue Raisonne: Hollstein 7; Passavant III.475
Credit Line: Baillieu Library Print Collection, the University of Melbourne. Gift of Dr J. Orde Poynton 1959.
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