Hercules en Cacus, Hendrick Goltzius, 1588

Hercules en Cacus, Hendrick Goltzius, 1588

chiaroscuro woodcut, h 410mm More details

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Identification

Title(s)

Hercules en Cacus

Object type

Object number

RP-P-OB-10.469

Catalogue reference

The Illustrated Bartsch 231-3(4)
Hollstein Dutch 373-4(4)

Inscriptions / marks

collector's mark: Lugt 240
collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Hercules heft een grote knots op om Cacus, op de grond liggend in zijn grot, te slaan. Onder de voorstelling is in drukletters het adres van drukker Willem Janszoon Blaeu vermeld.

Creation

Artist

print maker: Hendrick Goltzius
after own design by: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
printer: Willem Janszoon Blaeu (mentioned on object)
publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Place

print maker: Haarlem
printer: Amsterdam
publisher: Amsterdam

Dating

1588

Material and Technique

Material

paper

Technique

chiaroscuro woodcut / letterpress printing

Measurements

height 410 mm
height 417 mm
width 331 mm

Subject

What

Cacus, the fire-breathing monster is killed in his cave by Hercules

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Relations

AC-00081018object | reproductionobject | reproductie15026RM0001.COLLECT.1500081017

Documentation

Cornelis van Haarlem 1562-1638, Judith Niessen, p. 36, afb. 21
Chiaroscuro woodcuts, Nancy Ann Bialler, p. 103-114, cat.nr. 25
H. Leeflang, De kunst van de houtsnede, Even zeldzaam als onovertroffen, in: Kunstschrift 3 (2009), p. 42, afb. 47

Persistent URL

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