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Hercules Victorious Over the Hydra

Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520–1582)
After: Giovanni Battista Bertani (Italian, 1516–1576)
about 1558

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 35.3 x 21.3 cm (13 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 35 x 20.8 cm (13 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.)(plus the excrescence with the hydra's claw at the lower right)
Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number62.948
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 44; Bellini 34, only state; Boorsch, Lewis & Lewis 24, only state
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceWilliam H. Schab Master Prints and Drawings, Inc., New York; from whom purchased October 10, 1962