The Age of Gold (Ovid, Metamorphoses i:89–136)
Drawing
Late 16th to 17th century (made)
Late 16th to 17th century (made)
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Pairs of naked figures are scattered throughout a lush landscape, presided over by the figure of Saturn with his scythe atop a cloud at upper centre, just to the left of a shining sun with a face.
Object details
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| Title | The Age of Gold (Ovid, Metamorphoses i:89–136) (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with opaque white (partially oxidized), over black chalk; the contours indented with a stylus; framing line in brown ink. |
| Brief description | Drawing, 'The Age of Gold (Ovid, Metamorphoses 1:89-136)', attributed to Hendrick Goltzius, Pen and brown ink, circa. late 16th to 17th century |
| Physical description | Pairs of naked figures are scattered throughout a lush landscape, presided over by the figure of Saturn with his scythe atop a cloud at upper centre, just to the left of a shining sun with a face. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Bears false monogram at lower right, in brown ink, HG (in ligature), which may have replaced a lost genuine monogram on the missing lower right corner. |
| Object history | Provenance: Miss Emily Dalton (1816/17–1900), Leicester, by whom bequeathed to the museum (NAL dry stamp on recto and Dalton Bequest purple ink stamp on verso of lining; neither in Lugt), 1900. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, Vol. 1, Cat. 71, illustrated. p. 120 |
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| Accession number | D.1083-1900 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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