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Jan Muller after Adriaen de Vries

Hercules Killing the Hydra, c. 1602

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Medium

engraving

Dimensions

plate: 51.1 x 36.5 cm (20 1/8 x 14 3/8 in.)

sheet: 52.2 x 37.8 cm (20 9/16 x 14 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 87, State ii/iv

Accession Number

1971.36.3

Artists / Makers

Jan Muller (artist) Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Adriaen de Vries (artist after) Netherlandish, c. 1556 - 1626

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Exhibition History

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001.

2004: The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York, 2004.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 1999, no. 87, state ii/iv.

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