Skip to main content
Hercules and Atlas
Public Domain

Heinrich Aldegrever

Hercules and Atlas

1550

Scroll

Heinrich Aldegrever

Hercules and Atlas

1550

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed to platemark): 107 x 69 mm. (4 3/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate 9 from the series "The Labors of Hercules"
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.3260
Malcolm Daniel, The Baltimore Museum of Art traveling exhibition, "Mythprints," 1981-82, circulated to Essex Community College; The Museum in the Mall, Columbia; Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson; St. John's College, Annapolis; Salisbury State College; Washington College, Chestertown; Western Maryland College, Westminster.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Mythprints," exhibition brochure, 1981-82, cat. 7.-9.h.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate monogram "AG" and "1550"; lower margin, in plate "Mos aetherij subiit gestamen Olympi / Quod prior immenso corpore torsit Atlas". Verso: lower left, in graphite "B 91 / 5"

Markings: none

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

German, 1502-c. 1555/61

Meet Heinrich Aldegrever

Explore the Collection Further

Hendrick Hondius and Heinrich Aldegrever
Heinrich Aldegrever
n.d.
Michel Natalis
Statue of Hercules
c. 1636
Heinrich Aldegrever
Amnon Violating Tamar
1540
Cornelis Bloemaert and Jakob von Sandrart
Statue of Hercules
c. 1636
Heinrich Aldegrever
A Vase Between Two Chimeric Figures
1553
Francesco Faraone Aquila and Domenico de' Rossi
Hercules Slaying the Hydra
1704
Heinrich Aldegrever and Marcantonio Raimondi
Fifteen Nude Children Dancing
1535
Jacob Jordaens
Cacus Stealing the Cattle of Hercules
1652
Unknown Artist and Heinrich Aldegrever
The Monk and the Nun
1530
Romeyn de Hooghe
Atlas Carrying the World, Surrounded by Six Other Subjects
n.d.
Heinrich Aldegrever and Hans Schäufelein the Elder
Master of Ceremonies with a Dog
1532
Hendrick Goltzius
Hercules Killing Cacus
1588