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Mercury: AD.1.18-562

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Mercury
The Seven Planets

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Solis, Virgilius, the elder

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Transferred (1876) by Cambridge University Library

Dating

Circa 1535 - Circa 1562

Note

One half of a plate which also printed Venus (AD.1.18-561)

School or Style

German

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: AD.1.18-562
Primary reference Number: 129758
Hollstein (German): 426
Old location number: 37.11.1g
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 10 May 2013 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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