Autolicus, a champion in the Pancratian or Athenian games, crowned by winged Victory. The loser pulls a feather from Victory’s wing. The winner is adorned with fillets or ribbons tied to his arms. 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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