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Object Type: print
Museum number: F,1.280
Title: Series: The Labours of Hercules
Description: Hercules slaying the dragon Ladon; Hercules, seen from behind, raising his club to strike the winged monster; in the background, Hercules picking a golden apple from the garden of the Hesperides; after Floris. 1563 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Cornelis Cort; After: Frans Floris; Published by: Hieronymus Cock
School/style: Netherlandish
Production date: 1563
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 225 millimetres; Width: 285 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For comment on the series see F,1.277.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (70.III) (Frans Floris); Bierens de Haan 1948 / L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais 1533-1578 (175); Van de Velde 1975 / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570), Leven en Werken (49); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (78); Wouk, Frans Floris / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance. (70)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Herakles/Hercules; Representation of: Ladon
Acquisition date: 1810 (before)
Acquisition notes: There is no indication of provenance on the verso.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: F,1.280

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