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Medal Design with Hercules Battling the Lernean Hydra: LABORE ET CONSTANTIA

Medal Design with Hercules Battling the Lernean Hydra: LABORE ET CONSTANTIA

1720 - 1772

Charles-Norbert Roëttiers

French

Hercules wearing a lion skin attacks the Hydra with his club.

Red chalk with traces of graphite, and guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face

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