Allegorical Figures: Force, Hercules Strangling the Hydra, Plenty, and Fame

Bernardino Rodriguez ("Bernardino Siciliano") Italian

1600–1650

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Title: Allegorical Figures: Force, Hercules Strangling the Hydra, Plenty, and Fame
Artist: Bernardino Rodriguez ("Bernardino Siciliano") (Italian, documented (?) Sicily 1600–1650)
Date: 1600–1650
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and reddish wash, traces of white gouache highlighting, over red chalk
Dimensions: 4-1/4 x 5-13/16 in. (10.8 x 14.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917
Object Number: 17.236.35
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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