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Title: Hercules and Achelous: at center Hercules grasps the horns of a bull while pressing his right foot onto its leg, at left Hercules wrestles a serpent, at right Hercules wrestles a male figure on the ground, from the series 'The Labors of Hercules'
Artist:
Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 1555–1630 Rome)
Date: 1608
Medium: Etching
Dimensions:
sheet: 5 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (13.9 x 17.5 cm)
plate: 3 15/16 x 5 9/16 in. (10 x 14.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number: 2012.136.425.8
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