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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1948,0410.4.68
Title: Series: The Labours of Hercules
Description: Hercules attacking three-headed monster Geryon, another man, seen from behind, also with a club (Hercules?), seen to right; another figure, bearded and holding a jar in the air, seen on profile, to right; a two-headed dog, half asleep, at Hercules' feet; beyond, Hercules raises his club at a charging boar; behind, a city landscape with a castle; copy in reverse by David after Cort after Floris. 1620s? Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Charles David; After: Cornelis Cort; After: Frans Floris; Published by: Charles David
School/style: French; Flemish
Production date: 1615-1631
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 229 millimetres; Width: 285 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is one from a series of ten copies in reverse after a series of plates after Frans Floris engraved by Cornelis Cort (New Hollstein 172-181); for comment on this series see F,1.277.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (74) (Frans Floris; copy a); Bierens de Haan 1948 / L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais 1533-1578 (179) (copy); Van de Velde 1975 / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570), Leven en Werken (54) (copy); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (78) (copy); Wouk, Frans Floris / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance. (74) (copy)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Herakles/Hercules; Representation of: Geryon; Representation of: Erymanthian Boar
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1948,0410.4.68

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