HERCULES (CONQUERING THE MOLIONIDE TWINS)
Circa 1496
Story:
With monogram
Inscription:
ERCULES (Hercules)
387×280 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Circa 1580
Second state with sixteen birds in the sky
Watermark:
augsburg cup with a pine cone
Provenance:
N. Basnin’s collection;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1918;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-5369
Comments:
all the impressions on paper with the same watermarks are dated 1580s by Meder (М. 238, II, а)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-2200 on paper with a watermark: lilies in a circle (M. 119; Br. 7100–7108; 1523–1580).
Third state; the plate is damaged in the area around young woman’s eyes.
A 1580s impression from a plate with a large vertical crack across the whole sheet (M. 238, III, a)
Plate:
London. The British Museum
