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Hercules Slaying the Hydra
Battista Angolo del Moro (Italian, 1514–1575)
1552
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 22.2 x 28.4 cm (8 3/4 x 11 3/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP14007
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
See David Landau, "Battista del Moro," Print Quarterly, v. 3, no. 4 (December 1986), pp. 347-349, for a discussion of this print, which is not listed in Bartsch.
Catalogue Raisonné
Not in Bartsch; see Notes
Marks
Verso, upper left, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282a)
InscriptionsEtched in the plate, lower right, the initials "BM"
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note 1]. (Acquisition Date: October 21, 1897)
NOTE:
[1] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.
NOTE:
[1] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.