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Hercules Killing Cacus

Heinrich Aldegrever

Hercules Killing Cacus

1549

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Heinrich Aldegrever

Hercules Killing Cacus

1549

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 101 x 68 mm. (4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.3253
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Mythprints," exhibition brochure, 1981-82, cat. 6l.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate monogram "AG" and "1550"; below image, lower margin, in plate "Oppetit Herculeo Cacus reboante iuuenco / Ad sua quem auerso traxerat antra gradu". Verso: center, in graphite "[indescipherable] B. 85"

Markings: none

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

1501–2000

German, 1502-c. 1555/61
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