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Jacob Binck (1494/1500 Köln - 1569 Königberg), The Goddess Ops, 1530, Copper Engraving Technique: Copper Engraving on paper Size: 21,3 x 10,9 cm | 8 1/2 x 4 1/3 in Inscription: in the plate lower right numbered: "2", lower inscribed: "OPIS SATURNI CONIUNX MATERQUE DEORUM" Condition: A little bit browned and stained. Description: The goddess Ops, Saturn's wife and mother of Jupiter, is shown here in frontal view standing in a niche, her hands raised to her breasts, surrounded by various animals. The sheet is one of a series of twenty Engravings of full-length figures standing in niches after Jacopo Caraglio's Engravings after Rosso Fiorentino. Cat.Rais.: Hollstein / German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts c.1400-1700 (76), Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VIII.273.27) Keywords: Old Master, Mythology, Printmaking, Engraving, Mythology, Goddess, Rhea, Ops, Saturn, Animal, Deer, Lion, Goat, Bear, Woman, Nude, Niche, Figure