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Mercury with the Head of Argus in His Hand Wall Art
ART BY: Hieronymus Cock
Mercury with the Head of Argus in His Hand Wall Art
ART BY: Hieronymus Cock
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About this artwork
Mercury with the Head of Argus in His Hand is a print, etching on laid paper by Hieronymus Cock (1518–1570), dated 1558. The artist is catalogued as Dutch. The source scan comes from the National Gallery of Art, and the file offered here measures 4096 × 2874 px (4.4 MB). It is filed under Prints and Renaissance, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 170 works by Hieronymus Cock, a Flemish artist.
Hieronymus Cock, or Hieronymus Wellens de Cock, was a Flemish painter and etcher as well as a publisher and distributor of prints. Cock is regarded as one of the most important print publishers of his time in northern Europe.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Hieronymus Cock →
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