File:Drawing, Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules, 1562 (CH 18565531).jpg

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English: Drawing, Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules, 1562   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Drawing, Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules, 1562
Description
English: An octagonal basin upon a square platform from which a shaft rises at center supporting a circular basin and two tiers adorned with statues depicting episodes of the Hercules legend. At the top of the shaft, Hercules supports the world. On top pier, Hercules is shown with the Cretan Bull (at right side); Hercules with Hydra and the Nemean Lion (at left side). Below them, on the rim of the circular basin (at mid-section of fountain), at each side, are two pairs of putti on Capricorns; the infant Hercules with a snake is shown at the center of this circular basin rim. On the rim of the bottom octagonal basin are three statue groups: Hercules killing Nessus (center); Hercules and Antaeus (at right); and Hercules about to club another unidentified male (left). The sides of the octagonal basin are adorned with relief panels, probably depicting additional scenes from the life of Hercules.
Date 1562
date QS:P571,+1562-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium black chalk on off-white laid paper
Dimensions Sheet: 43.3 x 27.8 cm (17 1/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1942-36-1
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
Inscriptions Collector's stamp in black ink, lower right recto: Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364); Cooper Union in purple (Lugt suppl. 457e) lower center verso. Watermark: Star in diamond in circle (Heawood 3875); similar to Briquet 6097.
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  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: In pen and brown ink at upper right [noted as in two different inks and by two different hands by Rudolf Berliner, 1945]: Baccio 46; in black chalk to left of globe: 22; to left of Hercules right leg: 6; below fountain bowl, right: 8; on base, center: 5; below base center right: 5.
  • Period: Late Renaissance
  • Country: Italy
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