The Farnese Hercules. Etching by R. Dalton, 174-.

  • Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791.
Date:
[between 1740 and 1749?]
Reference:
663877i
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Description

The sculpture known as the "Farnese Hercules", formerly in Palazzo Farnese, Rome, and from 1792 in Naples (latterly Museo Nazionale): Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

[London] : [R. Dalton?], [between 1740 and 1749?]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 53 x 37.4 cm

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Lettering

Hercules, a labore quiescens in aedibus farnesianis. To Chichester Fortescue Esq.r this plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient serv.t R Dalton. R. Dalton fecit.

References note

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique, the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 229-232, no. 46 (do not mention this print)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 663877i

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  • album of etchings by R. Dalton after ancient sculptures in Italy

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