Heracles strangling the Nemean lion. He wears the skin of a previoualy killed lion that had devoured his father's herd, with club. In carnelian. Hercole Leontophamos. In corniola. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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