EditorialArtist, circle of: Moyses Matheusz van Uyttenbroeck, Dutch, ca. 1595/16001646, Mercury and?Battus, 17th?century, Pen and brown ink and brush and gray ink and gray wash over black chalk, sheet: 20.5 ? 32.4 cm (8 1/16 ? 12 3/4?in.), Made in The Netherlan...
EditorialRichard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822, after Claude Gell?e, French, 1600-1682, Mercury and Battus, ca. 1775, Etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper, plate: 8 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.
EditorialRichard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822, after Claude Gell?e, French, 1600-1682, Mercury and Battus, ca. 1776, etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper, Plate: 8 1/8 ? 10 1/4 inches (20.6 ? 26 cm).
EditorialMercury and Battus, Oil on canvas, 47 x 70 in. (119.4 x 177.8 cm), Paintings, Francisque Millet (French, 1642?1679), The story of the old shepherd Battus, who, having witnessed Mercury's theft of a herd of cattle, promised not to disclose the secret, i...
EditorialMedals of Cyrenaean King Battus and Queen Pheretima 1,2,3, King Magas 4, the oracle of Ammon 5,6, and Cyrenean priests 7,8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of t...
EditorialGold rim swallowtail butterfly, Battus polydamas 1,2, and red ring skirt, Hestina assimilis 3,4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.
EditorialPipevine swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor 1,4, and black swallowtwail, Papilio polyxenes asterias 2,3,5. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.