Artworks · Hendrick Goltzius

Johan Gols [The Artist's Father]

1578 · engraving on laid paper

plate: 14.9 × 10.2 cm (5 7/8 × 4 in.) sheet: 15.6 × 10.6 cm (6 1/8 × 4 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Landscape with a Farmhouse, from Four Small Landscapes

1578 · Woodcut in black on blue laid paper

Image: 11.3 × 14.4 cm (4 1/2 × 5 11/16 in.); Plate/sheet: 12.3 × 15.5 cm (4 7/8 × 6 1/8 in.)

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Nox, plate seven from Demogorgon and the Deities

1578 · Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks of black, ochre and olive green, on ivory laid paper

Image: 34.7 × 26.3 cm (13 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.); Sheet: 40.8 × 34 cm (16 1/8 × 13 7/16 in.)

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Lucretia Killing Herself, from The Story of Lucretia

1578 · Engraving on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed): 20.6 × 24.9 cm (8 1/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

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Tarquinius and Lucretia, from The Story of Lucretia

1578 · Engraving on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed): 20.7 × 24.7 cm (8 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

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The Banquet of Tarquinius Collatinus, from The Story of Lucretia

1578 · Engraving on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed): 20.3 × 24.7 cm (8 × 9 3/4 in.)

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Lucretia and her Women Spinning, from The Story of Lucretia

1578 · Engraving on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed): 20.9 × 24.6 cm (8 1/4 × 9 11/16 in.)

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Jan Goltz II, Father of the Artist

1578 · Engraving on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed): 14.9 × 10.1 cm (5 7/8 × 4 in.)

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The Visitation, plate two from The Birth and Early Life of Christ

1578 · Engraving in black on cream laid paper

Image: 46.4 × 35.3 cm (18 5/16 × 13 15/16 in.); Plate: 48 × 35.5 cm (18 15/16 × 14 in.)

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Gerardus Mercator

1576 · Engraving on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed): 19.8 × 15.1 cm (7 13/16 × 6 in.)

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Gerrit Dircksz. or Claes Stefensz. van Heussen

1576 · Engraving on paper

Sheet (trimmed): 5 × 3.7 cm (2 × 1 1/2 in.)

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Anna Fullings, Mother of the Artist

1575 · Engraving on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed): 17 × 11.8 cm (6 3/4 × 4 11/16 in.)

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The Annunciation

1574 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 21.6 × 28.8 cm (8 9/16 × 11 3/8 in.); sheet: 24.3 × 32 cm (9 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

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The Separation of the Blessed and the Damned

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Sheet (trimmed): 26.2 × 26 cm (10 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Giovanni de’ Medici before Francis I, plate 6 from The History of Giovanni de’ Medici

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 21.7 × 29.8 cm (8 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.); sheet: 23.2 × 31.2 cm (9 3/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St Simon and Judas Thaddaeus, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.6 × 28.1 cm (8 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.); sheet: 27.2 × 36.3 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St Paul, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 21 × 29 cm (8 5/16 × 11 7/16 in.); sheet: 27.3 × 36.3 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St Matthias, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.6 × 27.7 cm (8 1/8 × 10 15/16 in.); sheet: 27.2 × 36.2 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St Philip, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.6 × 27.8 cm (8 1/8 × 11 in.); sheet: 27.3 × 36 cm (10 3/4 × 14 3/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St Bartholomew, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.8 × 28 cm (8 1/4 × 11 1/16 in.); sheet: 27.2 × 36.3 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St James Major, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.6 × 28.3 cm (8 1/8 × 11 3/16 in.); sheet: 27.3 × 36.3 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St Matthew, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.7 × 28.1 cm (8 3/16 × 11 1/8 in.); sheet: 27.3 × 36.5 cm (10 3/4 × 14 3/8 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St James the Lesser, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.6 × 28.5 cm (8 1/8 × 11 1/4 in.); sheet: 27.2 × 36 cm (10 3/4 × 14 3/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of Christ, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.7 × 28.6 cm (8 3/16 × 11 5/16 in.); sheet: 27.4 × 36.3 cm (10 13/16 × 14 5/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St Andrew, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.8 × 28 cm (8 1/4 × 11 1/16 in.); sheet: 27.2 × 36.4 cm (10 3/4 × 14 3/8 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St John, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.7 × 27.5 cm (8 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.); sheet: 27.2 × 36.3 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St Thomas, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 21 × 28.8 cm (8 5/16 × 11 3/8 in.); sheet: 27.2 × 36.2 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

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The Martyrdom of St Peter, from The Martyrdom of Christ and the Apostles

1573 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 21.2 × 29.3 cm (8 3/8 × 11 9/16 in.); sheet: 27.3 × 36.2 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

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The Sleepless Night of the Litigant, from Litis Abusus (The Abuses of the Law)

1571 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 18.1 × 22.7 cm (7 3/16 × 8 15/16 in.); sheet: 27 × 33.2 cm (10 11/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

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Imperiled Litigation, from Litis Abusus (The Abuses of the Law)

1571 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 18.2 × 22.5 cm (7 3/16 × 8 7/8 in.); sheet: 27 × 33 cm (10 11/16 × 13 in.)

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Death of the Foolish Litigant, from Litis Abusus (The Abuses of the Law)

1571 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 18.2 × 22.8 cm (7 3/16 × 9 in.); sheet: 27.1 × 32.8 cm (10 11/16 × 12 15/16 in.)

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The Expense of Litigation, from Litis Abusus (The Abuses of the Law)

1571 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 18.1 × 23 cm (7 3/16 × 9 1/16 in.); sheet: 27.5 × 33 cm (10 7/8 × 13 in.)

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Unequal Justice, from Litis Abusus (The Abuses of the Law)

1571 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 18.1 × 22.7 cm (7 3/16 × 8 15/16 in.); sheet: 27.5 × 33.1 cm (10 7/8 × 13 1/16 in.)

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Avarice is the Root of all Evil, from Litis Abusus (The Abuses of the Law)

1571 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 18 × 22.6 cm (7 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.); sheet: 27 × 32.8 cm (10 11/16 × 12 15/16 in.)

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The Ignorant Notary, from Litis Abusus (The Abuses of the Law)

1571 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 18 × 22.5 cm (7 1/8 × 8 7/8 in.); sheet: 25.5 × 33 cm (10 1/16 × 13 in.)

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To Each His Own, from Litis Abusus (The Abuses of the Law)

1571 · Engraving on ivory laid paper

Plate: 18.5 × 23.2 cm (7 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.); sheet: 28 × 33.1 cm (11 1/16 × 13 1/16 in.)

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Exemplar Virtutum, from "Allegorical Scenes from the Life of Christ"

1570 · Engraving

sheet: 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (26.6 x 19.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Adoration of the Magi

1570 · Engraving

sheet: 18 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. (47 x 35 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design with Female Figure in Flowing Drapery

1546 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

25.1 × 17.2 cm (9 15/16 × 6 13/16 in.)

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