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Print

1611 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print depicting Hercules, Nessus and Deianira. After the antique.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Engraving and etching
Brief description
Print from the second book (consisting 36 prints) of 'De Excellentia et Nobilitate Delineationis Libri Duo'. Etching and engraving by Giovanni Battista Franco depicting Hercules, Nessus and Dejanira. Published Venice, 1611.
Physical description
Print depicting Hercules, Nessus and Deianira. After the antique.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 35.9cm
  • Size of volume width: 25.4cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Batista [sic] Franco fecit' (Most prints in the series lettered)
  • 'Franco Forma' (Some prints in the series also lettered)
  • (Inscribed in ink inside the front and back covers of the volume with numbers)
Object history
This print is from the second book of 'De Excellentia et Nobilitate Delineationis Libri Duo', published by Giacomo Franco in Venice in 1611. The second book contains various subjects, mainly from Roman wall-paintings, reliefs and cameos, and has an etched frontispiece by Jacopo Palma. There are thirty-six engravings and etchings by Giovanni Battista Franco. Both the first and second books are quarter-bound in brown-calf parchment boards. The volume contains sixty-four plates on fifty-five sheets, four pages of letterpress, with two initial letters, a dedication to J. B. Duval, a discourse by the publisher, Giacomo Franco, and an epigram.
Production
Some of the prints in the second book were probably re-worked by Giacomo Franco.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.948-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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