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Plate 15: Hercules standing in a niche, wearing a lion skin and holding a club, viewed from behind, with his head turned to the left, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"
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Plate 15: Hercules standing in a niche, wearing a lion skin and holding a club, viewed from behind, with his head turned to the left, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 1/8 × 8 3/16 in. (20.7 × 20.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

1495–1565Republic of Venice

Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505–1565 Krakow (?)