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T375, HERCULES BEARING THE GLOBE ON HIS SHOULDERS, WHILST ATLAS GATHERS FRUIT [REQUESTING ATLAS TO RELIEVE HIM OF IT]

  • Reference Number: T375
  • Description: HERCULES BEARING THE GLOBE ON HIS SHOULDERS, WHILST ATLAS GATHERS FRUIT [REQUESTING ATLAS TO RELIEVE HIM OF IT]
  • Inscription Greek: ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥ
  • Signature: Dioskourides
  • Literary Source Record: Moritz
  • Current Collection: British Museum, London
  • Previous Collections:
    • Catalogue des pierres graves antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833)
    • Calandrelli drawing, Antikensammlung Berlin
    • Daktyliothek Poniatowski 1832, Antikensammlung Berlin
    • Christie's, London
    • Prendeville, J.: Explanatory catalogue of the proof-impressions of the antique gems possessed by the late Prince Poniatowski and now in the possession of John Tyrrell, Esq. (1841)
    • Platz-Horster,G.: L'antica maniera. Zeichnungen und Gemmen des Giovanni Calandrelli in der Antikensammlung Berlin (2005)
    • Rudoe, J. in M. Jones (ed.): Fake? (1990)
    • Rudoe, J. 'The faking of gems in the eighteenth century' in: Why Fakes Matter (1992)
  • Material: Cornelian
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