Artist Gian Jacopo Caraglio, Italian, 1500-1570
Title
  • Hercules Killing the Hydra of Lerna
  • The Labors of Hercules (series title)
Date between 1500 and 1570
Medium engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 8 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (21.9 × 18.1 cm)
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 3/4 inches (24.4 × 19.7 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S236
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Stamp, verso: Scripps 1886 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
December 1886, Bangs sale.
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)