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Heinrich Aldegrever

Plate 5 from the series “The Labors of Hercules”

1549

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Heinrich Aldegrever

Plate 5 from the series “The Labors of Hercules”

1549

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 95 x 68 mm. (3 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.3255
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Mythprints," exhibition brochure, 1981-82, cat. 7.-9.d.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate monogram "AG" and "1550"; below image, lower margin, in plate "Sponte petit rapidos Erebi tirinthius amnes / Ianitor erepta Coniuge caesus obit". Verso: center, in graphite "B. 87 [indescipherable]"

Markings: none

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

1501–2000

German, 1502-c. 1555/61
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