Hercules naked choking the Nemean lion with his bare hands in a cave entrance, his bow, quiver, club and cloak on the ground. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.

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