Title(s)

Zes afgietsels van antieke sculpturen van Mercurius, Hercules en Silenus met het kind Dionysos

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1074-5

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘18 Mercury. 19 Mercury Vatican. 20 Youth returning thanks. 21 Hercules Farnese. 22 Silenus and Bacchus. 23 Hercules British Museum.’

Artist

• H.G. Smith
• H.W. Tupper

Dating

c. 1864 - in or before 1874

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 186 mm × width 171 mm

What

• piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture
• (story of) Mercury (Hermes)
• (story of) Hercules (Heracles)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Cast catalogue of antique sculpture with an introduction to the study of ornament (RP-F-2001-7-1074)