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Hercules helps Atlas carry the globe, Heinrich Aldegrever

Heinrich Aldegrever

Hercules helps Atlas carry the globe

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Heinrich Aldegrever

Hercules helps Atlas carry the globe, 1550

Blatt: 94 x 69 mm

Inventory Number: 663

Object Number: 663 Z

Status: Request for presentation in the study room of the Prints and Drawings Department

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Title: Hercules helps Atlas carry the globe

Draughtsman

Heinrich Aldegrever

Part Number / Total: 7 / 10

Period Produced

16th century

School

Renaissance

Object Type

drawing

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

Westphalian

Production Reason

vorbereitende Zeichnung

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Monogrammiert und datiert unten rechts: 1550 / AG [gespiegelt]

Captions Added Later: Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark: Pro Patria [Montierungsbogen, Fragment]

Work Catalogues: Plaßmann 1994.91.31

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13.05.2026