Content: Written on border: "Neptune takes a tunny fish from the line on his trident. Hercules wearing a lion's skin and with a quiver on his back fishes as he kneels. Mercury with his caduceus seems to address Hercules. It is a comic scene with vine leaves in the background." "Thomas Hope Collection, London."
Source Note: Elite des monuments céramographiques : matériaux pour l''histoire des religions et des moeurs de l''antiquité. (Paris : Leleux, 1844-1861) Lenormant, Charles (1802-1859), Author.

Physical Description

Lithographs
Extent: 22 x 32 cm

Identifiers

Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 29da8570-c5be-012f-711d-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1844

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