Title: Mercury Turning Aglauros to Stone (Aglauros a Mercurio in lapidem transformatur), plate 20 from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid" (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum)
Object type: Print
Date: Published after 1606
Portfolio: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Artist:  Antonio Tempesta 
Artist bio: Italian, Florence 1555–1630 Rome
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: sheet: 6 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (17.5 x 20 cm)
plate: 5 7/8 x 4 1/2 in. (15 x 11.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of S. Paul Jones, 1935
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Women, term: Mercury