print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1882,0708.63
- Description
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Stage set for 'Ercole in Tebe' Act III, Scene 2, showing Charon ferrying Ercole across the river Styx, after a design by Tacca. Scene depicting the river flanked by trees and a castle and a fire in the background; Charon and Hercules on a boat on the left, and two figures standing in the foreground at right. Bound in G. A. Moniglia, 'Ercole in Tebe' (Florence, Stamperia dell'insegna della Stella: 1661).
1661
Etching
- Production date
- 1661
- Dimensions
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Height: 209 millimetres
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Width: 282 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This unsigned print now attributed to Ercole Bazzicaluva was formerly attributed to Valerio Spada; see: Phyllis Dearborn Massar, 'The Prints of Valerio Spada', in Print Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1 (MARCH 1987), p. 36.
Bound in volume, for comment see: 1882,0708.57.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Marriage of Cosimo III de' Medici and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans 1661
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Ercole in Tebe
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0708.63