The Second Day (Dies II): The Division of the Waters, plate 2 from The Creation of the World, a series of seven plates
Medium
Engraving; New Holl.'s second state of two
Dimensions
Plate (diameter): 10 5/16 in. (26.2 cm) Sheet: 10 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (26.7 × 26.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.601.338(8)
Tags
About the Artist
Hendrick Goltzius|Jan Muller|Hendrick Goltzius · 1558–1617
Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) was the most celebrated engraver of the Northern Renaissance and a pivotal figure in Dutch Mannerism. Born near the German-Dutch border, Goltzius transformed printmaking into a virtuoso art form through his revolutionary 'swelling line' technique, where the burin was manipulated to create lines of varying thickness that produced unprecedented tonal effects and three-d...