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Cornelis Cort, engraver
Dutch, 1533 - 1578
Hercules Killing the Lernean Hydra, pl. 5 from a set of ten Labors of Hercules, circa 1565
Engraving
22.4 x 28.5 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.12554

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after, Frans Floris the Elder~publisher, Hieronymus Cock

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Artist Biography: Born in Hoorn in 1533. 1552-1553 pupil of Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp and worked for him 1563-1565. 1565-1566 in Venice with Titian, after 1566 in Rome. Died in Rome 1578.; ~~Reference: Bierens de Haan, J.C.J.LOeuvre gravÈ de Cornelis Cort Graveur Hollandais 1533-1578 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1948)~Hollstein, Volume V, pp. 40 ff.~

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