Black-and-white engraving of muscular Hercules with a club and lion skin, facing a cloaked servant holding a garment, with a columned courtyard and rotunda behind.

Lichas Bringing the Garment of Nessus to Hercules

An engraving shows two bearded men in a classical courtyard: a muscular Hercules, bare-chested with a lion skin over one arm, grips a club while a cloaked servant holds out a folded garment. Behind them, a rotunda and tiny distant figures appear, with a Latin inscription across the top, all in fine black line work.

Artist: Hans Sebald Beham
Date: 1542
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1144 px

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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Alfred W. Stern

16th century 1540s 1542 engraving renaissance print classical mythology courtyard hans sebald beham lion skin labors of hercules nessus lichas hercules black and white