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Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others

Hercules’s Combat with the Hydra

1731, published 1733

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Hercules’s Combat with the Hydra

1731, published 1733

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 457 x 286 mm. (18 x 11 1/4 in.) Image: 352 x 250 mm. (13 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the book "Tafereel, Of Beschryving van den prachtigen Tempel der Zang-Godinnen," (Amsterdam: Chatelain, 1733) by Antoine La Barre de Beaumarchais (d. 1757)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.13003
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008

Signed: 2

Inscribed: recto: in plate, lower center: "COMBAT D'HERCULE CONTRE L'HYDRE DE LERNE. / Hercules's Combat with the Hydra. / Streit des Hercules, wieder die Lernische Schlange / Strydt van hercules, tegens de Slange van Lerna."; in plate, at bottom left: "B. Picart del. 1731."; at bottom right of sheet, in graphite: "28"

Artist

Bernard Picart

French, 1673-1733

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Artist

Theodor Matham

Dutch, 1605/6-1676

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Publisher

Zacharias Châtelain

Dutch, active in Amsterdam 1705 - 1733

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