The sale of Hercules to Omphale, Queen of Lydia. Hercules, in Nemean lion-skin and holding club, touches Omphale’s knee at right. The winged genius represents Hercules victim Iphitus. A Lydian woman with short hair sits at Omphale’s feet, and a servant holds a fan symbolizing Venus. 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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