Iole and Hercules. Engraving by P. Bettelini after Annibale Carracci.

  • Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.
Date:
[between 1700 and 1799?]
Reference:
2133492i
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Description

Hercules shakes a tambourine, representing feminine pleasures. Iole holds his club and wears his lion skin

Publication/Creation

[Rome?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700 and 1799?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving

Lettering

Hercules muliebribus oblectamentis indulgens leonis exuvias et clavam Jole cessit quibus ipsa superbit. Ex pictura Hannibalis Carraccii Romae in aedibus farnesianis. Ann. Caracci pinx. Petrus Bettelini sculp.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2133492i

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