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Hercules and the Hydra; wielding a torch he attacks the winged, multi-headed Hydra in rocky landscape, a hawk attacks a heron in the sky
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Engraving
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1927
Title: Hercules and the Hydra; wielding a torch he attacks the winged, multi-headed Hydra in rocky landscape, a hawk attacks a heron in the sky
Description:
Engraving.
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