Hercules and Atlas, No 9 from the series The Twelve Labors of Hercules

Inscriptions

Signed and date, in plate, lower left: 1550 / AG [artist's monogram: A over G]; inscribed, in plate, lower center: 'Mos aetherij subit gestamen Olympi Quod prior immenso corpore torfit Atlas; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 40676; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, lower center: B. 91

Exhibition History

A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 41.

Making Connections at the Hood Museum of Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 20-April 14, 2009.

Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Friends and Owen Robertson Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1988.

Representing Myth: The Classical Tradition in Western Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-August 17, 1995.

Publication History

Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 41.

Provenance

David R. Godine, Boston, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1986.

Catalogue Raisonne

Bartsch 16:91; Hollstein I.50.91; New Hollstein 92.91

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