Hercules Fighting Against the Trojans, 1545

  • Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500-1550

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 2 × 3 1/8 inches (5.1 × 7.9 cm) Sheet: 2 1/8 × 3 1/4 inches (5.4 × 8.3 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S117

Signed, in plate, lower right: [artist's monogram]

Stamp, verso: Scripps 1886 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate, lower left: 1545 Inscribed, upper edge: HERCVLES MVLTIS BELLIS LACESSIT TROIAM Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [various notations]

(H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hans Sebald Beham, Hercules Fighting Against the Trojans, 1545, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S117.