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Hercules Playing a Lyre

Johann Wilhelm Meil

Hercules Playing a Lyre

1752-1804

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Johann Wilhelm Meil

Hercules Playing a Lyre

1752-1804

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 189 x 141 mm. (7 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.) Image: 178 x 139 mm. (7 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.3460

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "I.W. Meil inve. deli: et sculpsit"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with indecipherable number Verso: upper center in graphite "[indecipherable] 2."

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett WM: unidentified, shield (?)

Artist

Johann Wilhelm Meil

1732–1804

German, 1733 - 1805
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