Terms and conditions of use
Hercules bearing the globe
(1670-1692)
plate 3 from the Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis series, published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome 1670–92
Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
25.1 × 45.6 cm (image) (oval) 27.9 × 47.0 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark) 45.8 × 71.0 cm (backing sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Professor Peter Tomory, 1991
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Rome, Italy
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Borea XXVIII B.3 ii/ii
Edition
2nd of 2 states
Printing/Publishing
printed and published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Annibal Carraccius pinxit in Ædibus Farneſianis
printed in ink l.l.: Petrus Aquila delineauit et sculp.
printed in ink l.c.: Io. Iocobus de Rubeis formis Romæ ad Templum S. Mariæ de Pace cum priu. S. Pontificis
printed in ink l.c.l.: Fortis Atlantæos humeris subijſse labores / Dicitur ALCIDES sustinuiſse polum.
printed in ink l.c.: Sol novus, occiduusque suâ ceruice pependit, / e̛t cœli longas aſtra obiere vias.
printed in ink l.c.r.: Pondera fert mundi Sapiens, dominabitur astris, / Ille suæ vitæ, qui bene fulcit onus.
printed in ink l.r.: 3
Accession Number
P110.3-1991
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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