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Mythology

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Engraved allegory with Minerva seated among putti carrying books, a townscape behind, and a laurel wreath border.

Allegorische voorstelling `Minerva Duce

Frederik Ottens, 1727

Pencil sketch of a nude male figure at an easel beside a draped female figure among columns and a tiled floor.

Sketch to Apollo and Melpomene

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1896

Engraving of Hercules wrestling the river-god Achelous beside a tree, with a distant city and a Latin inscription below.

Hercules fighting the river-god Achelous, from the series: The Labours of Hercules (7)

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1550

Ink drawing of Hercules seated by a tree between a sword-bearing woman and a laurel-holding armored woman in a forest.

Ontwerp voor illustratie in De Amsterdammer: Hercules op de tweesprong voor de keuze tussen Oorlog en Vrede (12 Mei 1…

Johan Braakensiek, 1917

Engraving of nude Apollo with laurel wreath embracing Hyacinthus, a cherub behind them, with Italian verse below.

Apollo en Hyacinthus

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1515

Engraving of a drunken Bacchus held up by a satyr, with a leopard, a maenad holding a thyrsus, and grapes in a landscape.

Dronkenschap van Bacchus

Jonas Suyderhoef, 1640

Pen and brown ink drawing of nude mythological figures and putti in an oval composition, with a sea creature below.

Mythological Figures

Taddeo Zuccari, 1561

Engraving of a man seated with nude Venus, Ceres and Bacchus figures, Cupid, fruit and wine barrel beneath a tree.

Man in gezelschap van Venus, Ceres en Bacchus

Johann Theodor de Bry, 1596

Sepia print of armored Perseus reaching toward three draped women seated on rocky ledges under a moonlit sky.

Perseus and the Graiae. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1892

Engraving of Polyxena being sacrificed at Achilles' tomb, with warriors, priests, an altar and mourning women.

Polyxena bij het graf van Achilles geofferd

Pietro Aquila, 1660

Engraving of a Bacchus triumphal procession with satyrs, maenads, big cats and an elephant in a wooded landscape.

Triomftocht van Bacchus

Pietro Aquila, 1660

Engraving of a nude helmeted goddess in an arched niche with a spear and a shield bearing a Gorgon head.

series of 20 engravings depicting mythological gods and goddesses

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1526

Black chalk drawing of a reclining muscular male nude, Hercules, with studies of a head and foot on blue paper.

Study of Hercules Resting, with Separate Studies of His Head and Foot (recto); Rectangular grid design (verso)

Annibale Carracci, 1595/97

Red chalk drawing of Ulysses and Circe with a winged Mercury above, a reclining man, and animal figures at lower left.

Ulysses Before Circe, Mercury Behind

Gaetano Gandolfi, 1766

Engraved title page with Mercury and Minerva, playing children, and small scenes of cavalry, ships, and a volcanic disaster.

Minerva en Mercurius, omringd door spelende kinderen

Jan Luyken, 1693

Sepia engraving of Achilles rescued by Juno and Vulcan from river gods Xanthus and Simois, with fallen warriors and an eagle.

Juno en Vulcanus redden Achilles van de riviergoden Scamander (Xanthe) en Simoïs

Philippe Louis Parizeau, 1770

Etching of Minerva in a helmet guiding two young artists with a palette and brushes near classical sculpture and columns.

Minerva Teaching a Young Artist, illustration for the Catalogue historique du Cabinet by Mariette

Ange Laurent de Lalive de Jully, n.d.

Engraving in an oval frame of nude Bacchus with a leafy wreath reaching toward draped Ariadne beneath stars, with Latin inscr

Bacchus en Ariadne

Michel Dorigny, 1644

Grey-toned drawing of a nude classical male statue standing on a pedestal beside a tree stump, by Henri Guillaume Chatillon.

Apollo or Adonis

Henri Guillaume Chatillon, 1818

Black line drawing of a stylized male figure with concentric curving lines and smaller draped figures, signed 1904.

"Apollo" from the stained glass of the Medical Society House in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Charcoal drawing of a large tree with a woman reaching upward and a small winged child leaping beside her.

Venus Disarming Cupid

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1852/57

Etching of a dense landscape with tangled tree branches and rocky ground in fine crosshatched lines.

Venus en Amor

Cornelis Schut, 1618

Engraved map cartouche with Minerva, Mercury, a coat of arms, eagle, and title text for Brandenburg, 1758.

Cartouche met Minerva en Mercurius

August Scheller, 1758

Engraved title cartouche for Hesse landgraviate with allegorical women, a shepherd, animals and a partial map.

Ceres, Diana en schapenscheerder rondom cartouche

Tobias Conrad Lotter, 1707

Etching of a triton-shaped pitcher with a merman figure, shell headdress, serpent handle and scrolled base.

Schenkkan in de vorm van een triton

Théodorus van Kessel, 1646

Japanese print of two flying birds above white narcissus blossoms and a perched bird beside a rock.

Birds and Narcissus

Suzuki Harunobu

Pencil sketchbook page with a hand study above and a crowded religious composition of figures below.

Copies of fragments of compositions by Titian: "Venus with Cupid and an Organist" and "Gloria"

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Woodcut of Hercules wrestling a many-headed serpent, the Lernean Hydra, among dark rocks.

Hercules Killing the Lernean Hydra, from Scenes from the Life of Hercules

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules, a nude muscular man, wrestling a large boar among tree trunks.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules Subduing the Erymanthian Boar

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules wrestling a bull by its horn, with trees and dense hatched lines behind the figures.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules Capture of the Cretan Bull

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules, seen from behind, wrestling the three-headed dog Cerberus beside a cave opening.

The Labors of Hercules: Bringing Cerberus from the Lower World

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of two nude men wrestling, one lifting the other, with a rocky cliff, distant town and fire.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules and Antaeus

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528