Nurnbergische Hesperides: No. 125 - Limon Ponzino da Neapoli. Palazzo del N. H. Cornaro à Fiesso (c. 1708): Art, History and Details

Nurnbergische Hesperides: No. 125 - Limon Ponzino da Neapoli. Palazzo del N. H. Cornaro à Fiesso (c. 1708) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Joseph de Montalegre (Hungarian); Johoann Christoph Volckamer (German).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The title of this set refers to Hercules, a mythological figure who must complete a series of difficult tasks. One of these was procuring the golden apples of the Hesperides, the nymphs who guarded this precious fruit. Hesperides also refers to books on citrus fruit, as it was once thought that the golden apples were actually Spanish oranges.

Object facts

• Title: Nurnbergische Hesperides: No. 125 - Limon Ponzino da Neapoli. Palazzo del N. H. Cornaro à Fiesso
• Date: c. 1708
• Creator attribution: Joseph de Montalegre (Hungarian); Johoann Christoph Volckamer (German)
• Culture: Hungary
• Type: Print
• Technique: engraving, hand-colored
• Collection: PR - Engraving
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1946.178

Collection credit

Gift of Kennedy & Company, NY, for The Donald Gray Memorial Collection

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