Hercules and the Hydra

1552

Battista Angolo del Moro

Artist, Italian, c. 1515 - 1573

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Philip and Judith Benedict

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 21.9 x 28.3 cm (8 5/8 x 11 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.88.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, undesc.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collection (stamp, HB or HUB DUP, Lugt undescribed); (sale, Christie's, London, 16 October 1984, no. 239); (Valeria Bella Stampe, Milan); Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington, DC; by descent to Philip and Judith Benedict; gift to NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 3.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: undesc.

1872

  • Meyer, Julius et al. Allegmeines Kunstler-Lexikon, unter Mitwirkung der namhaftesten Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes. 3 vols. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1972-1885.

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 3.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: BM; upper left in plate: 1552; by later hand, right verso in graphite: BM - 1552 / Hercule Combattant l'Hydra / Tres rare; by later hand, center verso in graphite: CH161084L239; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 36; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 850.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: H

Watermarks

siren in a circle

Wikidata ID

Q75121455

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