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Hans Sebald Beham

German, 1500-1550

Antaeum Libiae Gygantem Suffocat Hercules (Hercules Suffocating the Libyan Giant Antaeus) from the series Labors of Hercules

Antaeum Libiae Gygantem Suffocat Hercules (Hercules Suffocating the Libyan Giant Antaeus) from the series Labors of Hercules

Antaeum Libiae Gygantem Suffocat Hercules (Hercules Suffocating the Libyan Giant Antaeus) 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

1891:4.37

Inscriptions:

inscription / upper left, in the plate / Antaeum Libiae Gygantem Suffocat Hercules

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

Object Classifications:

Prints

Engraving (print)

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