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Plate 2 from the series “The Labors of Hercules”

Heinrich Aldegrever

Plate 2 from the series “The Labors of Hercules”

1549

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Heinrich Aldegrever

Plate 2 from the series “The Labors of Hercules”

1549

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 107 × 69 mm. (4 3/16 × 2 11/16 in.) Plate: 106 × 68 mm. (4 3/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.3252
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Mythprints," exhibition brochure, 1981-82, cat. 6k.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper left, in plate monogram "AG" and "1550"; lower margin, in plate "Belua uasta Leo Nemeae sub rupe necatur / Post reliqui Alcide succubnere neci". Verso: center, in graphite "84 / 8 / B 84"; lower right, in graphite "B 84 / 5"

Markings: none

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

1501–2000

German, 1502-c. 1555/61
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