Hercules, wearing the Nemean lionskin and holding a club, battling Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, for the girdle of Mars. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Kirk (1765-1797) from Sir William Hamilton’s Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the Late Sir Hamilton, T. M’Lean, London, 1834.

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