About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Girolamo da Carpi
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Title
- Ancient Sarcophagus Relief with the Labors of Hercules
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1521–1556
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Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, and traces of black chalk, on buff laid paper, pieced at center
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, upper center, in pen and brown ink: "Aper Erimantheus"; left corner, in pen and brown ink: "Hydra Lernaea"; lower left across margin, in pen and brown ink:" ...xh[?] / ...ablara / Herculis Attila, de sui [?] vide Hygm. / Leo Nemaeus."; lower center, in pen and brown ink: "Per / Her"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "ceruus [?] pernix / auratis anisibus [?]"; inscribed verso, upper left in graphite: "7"; upper right, in graphite: "9"
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Dimensions
- 23 × 32 cm (9 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 1922.3133
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/110324/manifest.json