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Hercules killing Cacus
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HENDRICK GOLTZIUS (1558-1617)
Hercules killing Cacus
chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks in black, pale ochre and light blueish-grey, 1588, on laid paper, watermark Bunch of Grapes with Stem in a crowned Shield with pendant Word (not in Briquet or Heawood), a good impression of Bialler's variant Ie (of VI), New Hollstein's variant Id (of III), trimmed to or just inside the borderline, fractionally into the subject at lower right, a very skilfully made-up paperloss at centre right, with the usual horizontal drying fold partially split and repaired
Sheet 400 x 322 mm.
Hercules killing Cacus
chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks in black, pale ochre and light blueish-grey, 1588, on laid paper, watermark Bunch of Grapes with Stem in a crowned Shield with pendant Word (not in Briquet or Heawood), a good impression of Bialler's variant Ie (of VI), New Hollstein's variant Id (of III), trimmed to or just inside the borderline, fractionally into the subject at lower right, a very skilfully made-up paperloss at centre right, with the usual horizontal drying fold partially split and repaired
Sheet 400 x 322 mm.
Provenance
With Christopher Mendez, London.
Acquired from the above around 1980.
Acquired from the above around 1980.
Literature
Bartsch 231; Hollstein 373; Strauss 403; Bialler 25, New Hollstein 304; Gnann 158-59
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