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Object Type: drawing
Museum number: 1946,0713.984
Description: Hercules; striding to left, wearing the lion skin, carrying a club over his right shoulder and holding a chain Charcoal, heightened with white, on brown paper
Producer name: Drawn by: Hendrik Goltzius; Formerly attributed to: Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem
School/style: Dutch
Production date: 1573-1616
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 401 millimetres; Width: 268 millimetres
Curator's comments: Not listed in E.J.K. Reznicek, 'Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius', Utrecht, 1961 or E.K.J. Reznicek, 'Drawings by Hendrick Goltzius, Thirty Years Later: Supplement to the 1961 catalogue raisonné', in Master Drawings 31 (1993), pp.215-178. There is no documentation dossier in the departmental archives.
Bibliographic references: Phillipps-Fenwick 1935 / Catalogue of drawings in the collection of T Fitzroy Phillipps-Fenwick (p.186(3)); Popham (D & F) 1932 / Dutch and Flemish drawings of the XV and XVI centuries (undescribed); Reznicek 1961 / Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Herakles/Hercules
Acquisition name: Donated by: Count Antoine Seilern
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn (Christie's, 5.vi.1860/215 as 'Various drawings of the Italian School', 20 in the lot, bt by Phillipps £1-4-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Phillipps; Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date: 1946
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1946,0713.984
Conservation: Treatment: 13 Jun 1996

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