- Titles Mars and Venus, from the series The Love of the Gods (Proper)
- Artist Jacob Matham, Dutch, 1571 - 1631
- Medium engraving
- Dimensions sheet: 10 7/8 × 7 7/16 in. (27.6 × 18.9 cm) image: 10 3/8 × 7 7/16 in. (26.4 × 18.9 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John and Amy Chatham, AFI.6.2019
- Work Type print
- Classification Prints
- Signature Signed with monogram in plate, lower left image: HG inuent
- Marks Watermark, bottom center: [circular shape with design, indecipherable]
- Inscription Recto, in plate, lower left image: 3 In plate, below image left: Armipotentis amor, nitide et Cythereidos, vs98 / Hesperios fluctus et divulgatur Eoos. In plate, below image right: Quid lateat Solem: primus promulgat amores, / Et concessa sibi potius que gaudia Vellet. Verso: none
- Provenance John Winter (d. 2014), London; purchased by C. G. Boerner, New York, 2008; purchased by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2019