Hercules infans [graphic]

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Description

Title
Hercules infans [graphic]
Creator
Frey, Jakob, 1681-1752, printmaker
Contributor
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609, artist.
Frey, Jakob, 1681-1752, publisher.
Published / Created
[approximately 1727]
Publication Place
Rom
Publisher
Apud Frey
Abstract

"The young Hercules wrestling with serpents."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,0514.1300.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Engraved after the painting, formerly owned by Sir Robert Walpole, that was subsequently acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 201 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17 x 14.5 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of artist statement.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : sheet 19 x 15 cm
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Reproductions
Engravings Italy Rome 1727
Etchings Italy Rome 1727
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material
etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Hercules (Roman mythological character),
Subject (Topic)
Snakes
Subjects
Hercules (Roman mythological character)
Snakes
Italy > Rome > 1727
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public
Rights
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Identifiers

Catalog Record
13233952
Object ID (OID)
16729783

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