Hendrick Goltzius
Hercules Killing Cacus
1899
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Hendrick Goltzius
Hercules Killing Cacus
1899
Physical Qualities
Chiaroscuro woodcut, Image: 406 x 330 mm. (16 x 13 in.)
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number
1970.40
Copy (printed from 3 matrices on antique laid paper) after Goltzius's color woodcut (chiaroscuro woodcut) of "Hercules and Cacus" from 1588
BMA, "17th Century Prints from Italy and the North," 27 May - 17 August, 1986.
Signed: 3
Inscribed: Recto: in block, at left center: "A° 88 H Goltzius Inue"; in block, at lower center: "t'Amsterdam by Willem Janssen in de vergulde Sonnewyser"
