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"
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Mythological Gods and Goddesses
Artist: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino
Artist bio: Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505–1565 Krakow (?)|Italian, Florence 1494–1540 Fontainebleau
Artist role: Artist|Artist
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian
Date: 1526
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 8 3/16 in. (20.7 × 20.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession year: 1949
Tags: Weapons|Hercules