Megasoma Elephas or Megaceras Jason and Six Other Insects

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pieter Holsteyn, the younger

Title

Megasoma Elephas or Megaceras Jason and Six Other Insects

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality)

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1640–1680

Medium

Watercolor and opaque watercolor on cream laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed center, below the beetle, in pen and brown ink: “PH”

Dimensions

16.5 × 21.6 cm (6 1/2 × 8 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Regenstein Endowment Fund

Reference Number

2020.263

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