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Hercules slaying the Hydra by 
																	Adriaen de Vries

Jan Harmensz Muller

( Dutch, 1571 - 1628 )

Hercules slaying the Hydra

After Adriaen de Vries

( Dutch, After 1550 - 1626 )

Hercules slaying the Hydra

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Materials:

engraving, on laid paper

Size Notes:

p; s: 515 x 367 mm

Markings:

watermark Large Coat-of-Arms and a Letters countermark

Condition:

fine, early impression of the second state (of four), published by Dancker Danckerts, Amsterdam, with narrow margins, a horizontal central fold, a rustmark a centre left, a wormhole in the pedestal, generally in good condition

Literature:

Hollstein 87 Renate Eikerlmann (ed.), Bella Figura - Europäische Bronzekunst in Süddeutschland um 1600 , Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (exhibition catalogue), 2015, no. 74, p. 376-77 (another impression illustrated)

Provenance:

R. Johannes Meyer (1882-1967), Hamburg; then by descent to the present owner

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