Omphale, Queen of Ludia, combing Greek hero Hercules' hair. He reaches out for the skin of the Nemean lion. On sardonyx and dactylotheca from the collection of the antiquarian Charles Francis Greville. Hercules and Omphale in Sardonie Orient & Dactyl. Mezzotint copperplate engraving by John Spilsbury from his Collection of Fifty Prints from Antique Gems, John Boydell, London, 1785.

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