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Hans Sebald Beham

German, 1500-1550

Cacum Flammivomum Opprimit Hercules (Hercules Overpowers Fire-breathing Cacus) from the series Labors of Hercules

Cacum Flammivomum Opprimit Hercules (Hercules Overpowers Fire-breathing Cacus) from the series Labors of Hercules

Cacum Flammivomum Opprimit Hercules (Hercules Overpowers Fire-breathing Cacus) from the series Labors of Hercules, 1545

engraving

sheet: 2 x 3 inches (5.08 x 7.62 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Gift of Willis O. Chapin, 1891

1891:4.36

Inscriptions:

inscription / upper center, in the plate / Cacum Flammivovum Opprimit Hercules

monogram; date / upper left, in the plate / 1545, HsB

Object Classifications:

Prints

Engraving (print)

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