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Hercules and the Nemeian Lion - Image 1
Hercules and the Nemeian Lion - Image 2
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Hieronymus Hopfer, Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, and others

Hercules and the Nemeian Lion

1528-1563, printed c. 1684

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Hercules and the Nemeian Lion

1528-1563, printed c. 1684

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 140 x 90 mm. (5 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.) Plate: 137 x 85 mm. (5 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.7356

Inscribed: Recto: in image, center left, in plate "I H" with hop vine insigina above; in image, lower right, in plate Funck-number "166". Verso: upper left in graphite "4."; center in graphite "14-17"; lower center in graphite "B 26 vol 8 / Page 512"; lower center in graphite "26"; lower left in graphite "173"; lower left in graphite diamond with "6392"; lower center right in graphite "B26 [indecipherable]"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Hieronymus Hopfer

German, active 1528-1563

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Publisher

David Funck

German, active 1682-1709

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