Title: Plate 14: Mercury standing in a niche playing his pipes, with the severed head of an old man and a sword at his feet, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"
Object type: Print
Date: 1526
Portfolio: Mythological Gods and Goddesses
Artist:  Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio 
Artist bio: Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505–1565 Krakow (?)
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 4 3/16 in. (20.8 × 10.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Musical Instruments, term: Mercury