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The Labours of Hercules

• Object type

  • print

• Museum number

  1868,0822.246

• 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

• Date

  • 1545

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • engraving

• Dimensions

  • Height: 49 millimetres
  • Width: 72 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Signed with monogram and dated on a tablet at lower left.
      Lettered at upper left: 'ANTAEUM LIBIAE GYGANTEM/ SUFFOCAT HERCULES'

• 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 fourth states, see 1845,0809.1220 and Gg,4C.10.

• Bibliography

  • Pauli 1901-11 103.III
  • Hollstein 103.III
  • Bartsch VIII.158.105

• Location

  Not on display (German Post-binder Small)

• Subjects

  • wrestling/wrestler
  • classical mythology
  • classical deity

• Associated names

  • Representation of: Antaeus
  • Representation of: Herakles/Hercules

• Acquisition name

  • Bequeathed by: Felix Slade

• Acquisition date

  1868

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1868,0822.246