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Hans Sebald Beham

German, 1500-1550

Nessi Veste Rabidus Se Comburit Hercules (Hercules on His Funeral Pyre) from the series Labors of Hercules

Nessi Veste Rabidus Se Comburit Hercules (Hercules on His Funeral Pyre) from the series Labors of Hercules

Nessi Veste Rabidus Se Comburit Hercules (Hercules on His Funeral Pyre) from the series Labors of Hercules, 1548

engraving

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

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Gift of Willis O. Chapin, 1891

1891:4.39

Inscriptions:

inscription / upper right, in the plate / Nessi Veste Rabidus Se Comburit Hercules

inscription / lower center, in the plate / Philocrasses

date; monogram / lower right, in the plate / 1548; (where the artist's monogram [HsB] would have appeared, the paper is torn

inscription / lower center, in the plate / Philocrasses

Object Classifications:

Prints

Engraving (print)

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