Hercules en Cacus, Hendrick Goltzius, 1596 - 1638

Title(s)

Hercules en Cacus

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2019-4811

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 373-4(4)
• The Illustrated Bartsch 231
• New Hollstein Dutch 304-Ih

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Hercules heft een grote knots op om Cacus, op de grond liggend in zijn grot, te slaan.

Artist

• print maker: Hendrick Goltzius
• after own design by: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• printer: Willem Janszoon Blaeu (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Place

print maker: Haarlem
printer: Amsterdam
publisher: Amsterdam

Dating

1588 and/or 1596 - 1638

Material

• paper

Technique

letterpress printing

Measurements

height 434 mm × width 332 mm

What

• Cacus, the fire-breathing monster is killed in his cave by Hercules

Acquisition

unknown 2019

Copyright

Public domain

• Cornelis van Haarlem 1562-1638, p. 36, afb. 21
• Goltzius - Heemskerck, p. 122, cat.nr. 373-IV
• Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, Huigen Leeflang, cat.nr. 304
• Chiaroscuro woodcuts : Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) and his time, p. 103-114, cat.nr. 25
• H. Leeflang, De kunst van de houtsnede, Even zeldzaam als onovertroffen, in: Kunstschrift 3 (2009), p. 42, afb. 47.