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Alcide al Bivio (Hercules at the Crossroads)

Date:

1760

Artist:

Anton Tischler (Austrian, 1721-1780), Jacob Matthias Schmutzer (Austrian, 1733-1811), and Johann Ernst Mansfeld (Czech, 1739-1796)
poetry by Pietro Metastasio (Italian, 1698-1782)
composed by Johann Adolf Hasse (German, 1699-1783)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Anton Tischler

Title

Alcide al Bivio (Hercules at the Crossroads)

Place

Austria (Artist's nationality:)

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1760

Medium

Book with engravings in black on cream laid paper

Dimensions

24 × 18.5 × 1.4 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/16 × 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg in memory of Bessie Kisloff Braude, Esq.

Reference Number

2014.140

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