Hercules, having slain the dragon, being honoured with a crown of foliage by the Hesperides, after Pietro da Cortona; frontispiece to Giambattista Ferrari's 'Hesperides
after Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
c. 1646
Materials
Ink on paper.
Measurements
305 x 225 mm
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873018.3.52
Summary
(Folio 23, recto, lower print ) Hercules, having slain the dragon, being honoured with a crown of foliage by the Hesperides, after Pietro da Cortona; frontispiece to Giambattista Ferrari's 'Hesperides, sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu...'
Provenance
At Saltram by 1771 and thence by descent to Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley and given to NT as part of the Endowment following transfer in 1957.
Marks and inscriptions
Lettered with six lines of Latin verse in margin beginning with 'Traditur in latebras manibus post terga revinctis [...] Namque malos prodit lux inimica viros', and in image 'Andrea del Sarto Invent. / Teodoro Cruger Scalp. 1617
Makers and roles
after Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669), creator Theodor Kruger (fl. 1613 - 1624), creator