print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1882,0708.64
- Description
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Stage set for 'Ercole in Tebe', Act III, Scene 7, Kingdom of Pluto, after a design by Tacca. Scene depicting the kingdom of Pluto as an arcade with archs decorated by monsters and masks. Pluto sitting on a throne in the center and Proserpina next to him, figures standing around them with Hercules standing in the foreground on the 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: 213 millimetres
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Width: 283 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This unsigned print was formerly attributed to Valerio Spada, in Massar's opinion made by an anonymous etcher, 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
- 1882,0708.64