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Object Type
print
Museum number
Gg,4C.10
Title
Series:
The Labours of Hercules
Description
Hercules wrestling Antaeus; standing in frontal view at centre, lifting Antaeus off the ground; his club on the ground at right; rocky landscape in background; from a series of twelve engravings. 1545 Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Sebald Beham
School/style
German
Production date
1545
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
50 millimetres
Width:
72 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
BM has a complete set of the series, most of the plates in various states.
BM also has an impression of the first and third states, see 1845,0809.1220 and 1868,0822.246.
Bibliographic references
Pauli 1901-11 / Hans Sebald Beham: Ein Kritisches Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche Radirungen und Holzschnitte
(103.IV)
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(103.IV)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(VIII.158.105)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
classical mythology
wrestling/wrestler
classical deity
Associated names
Representation of:
Herakles/Hercules
Representation of:
Antaeus
Acquisition name
Transferred from:
British Library
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
John Bagford
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford
Acquisition date
1814
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
Gg,4C.10