Geboorte van Hercules, Virgilius Solis, 1569

Title(s)

Geboorte van Hercules
Alomeae partus (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-22.092(V)

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 2301
• Hollstein German 1837

Description

Juno vertraagt de geboorte van Hercules en zijn broer Iphicles, door met gekruiste knieën en vingers voor de deur van Alcmene te zitten.

Artist

• print maker: Virgilius Solis
• publisher: Georg Rab
• publisher: Sigmund Feyerabend
• publisher: erven Weigand Han

Place

print maker: Neurenberg
publisher: Frankfurt am Main
publisher: Frankfurt am Main
publisher: Frankfurt am Main

Dating

1569

Material

• paper

Technique

letterpress printing

Measurements

height 60 mm × width 80 mm × height 100 mm × width 130 mm
height 150 mm × width 183 mm

What

• scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament
• birth of Hercules and his twin brother Iphicles; Juno delays the birth by sitting outside Alcmene's door with crossed knees and fingers
• Jupiter seizes Ate by her hair and hurls her down from Olympus, possibly because of the delayed birth of Hercules

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Dryope in een lotusboom veranderd

• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part III, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 194, 203, cat.nr. 2301, 1837
• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part II, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 96, 120, cat.nr. 1837