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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 10173115, member: 56&quot;]Sorry I can not help with this question. </p><p><br /></p><p>It likely is after a painting.&nbsp; One of his best known prints, &quot;The dragon devouring the Companions of Cadamus&quot; is.&nbsp; It was common practice.&nbsp; I believe it was also common practice to make a reversed copy of the painting &quot;en grisaille&quot; (in black and white) for the engraver to work from. This helped to resolve any tonality issues and resulted in a print correctly oriented. There could be third party specialists involved in different aspects of the production of a print who never got credited on the final print. But then, Glotzius was also a painter, so it&#039;s possible he was working from his own design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) was severely burned in a fire at a young age.&nbsp; The story is that it left his right hand crippled in such a way that made it the perfect shape to hold an engraver&#039;s burin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Goltzius&#039; drawing of his own hand:</p><p><a href="https://www.wikiart.org/en/hendrick-goltzius/the-artists-right-hand-1588" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wikiart.org/en/hendrick-goltzius/the-artists-right-hand-1588" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikiart.org/en/hendrick-goltzius/the-artists-right-hand-1588</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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