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Hercules Killing the Hydra
Raphael Lamar West1785
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Hercules Killing the Hydra
- Creator: Raphael Lamar West
- Date Created: 1785
- Subject Keywords: battles, death, Hercules, mythology
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “R.L. West 1785”; inscribed, lower center: publication date and publisher
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1964
- Materials & Techniques: Etching on tan wove paper
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Published April 18, 1801, by John P. Thompson, Great Newport Street and No. 51 Dean Street, Soho
- Dimensions: 1850
- Bibliography: Ruth S. Kraemer, “Drawings by Benjamin West and His Son Raphael Lamar West” (1975), cat. 214 “Cadmus Slaying the Dragon” as related to the etching (fig. 50)
- Associated People: Created by Raphael Lamar West (British (English), 1769-1850)
- Accession Number: 1964.16.1
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