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Gabriel Salmon, Hercules, Strangling the Nemean Lion, from the Labors of Hercules. Woodcut on paper, 1523–1533 © Potter Palmer Collection Fund

School of Brustolon Andrea, Standing Figure of Hercules, Wood with traces of gilding 1700–1725. Art Institute of Chicago © Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf

Frederic Charles Herrick, Overcome the difficulty of the journey: Hercules, Lithograph on cream wove paper, laid down on linen, 1907–1920. The Art Institute of Chicago © Gift of Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited

Edward Thomas Daniell, Corycian Cave Greece, Drawing, ‘Corycian Cave Greece’ by Edward Thomas Daniell (Rev) (1804-1842), watercolour and pencil on paper, undated; 24.5 cm x 34.7 cm; inscription bottom right ‘ETD Corycian Cave’; inscription on reverse ’94 Corycian Cave’. Norfolk Museums Service. © Norfolk Museums Service

Antoine Louis Barye, Lion Resting, Medium: watercolor on wove paper, lined. 1810-1875 . The Metropolitan Museum of Art © Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Hans Sebald Beham, Hercules and the Nemean Lion, from The Labors of Hercules, Engraving in black on ivory laid paper, 1548.The Art Institute of Chicago. © Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer

François Le Moyne, Hercules Raising his Club: Study for “Hercules and Cacus” ,Black chalk, with white chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on laid paper, 1717. The Art Institute of Chicago © Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray

Odilon Redon, Melancholy, Various charcoals and gouache, with pastel and black chalk, and touches of stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on gray wove paper, 1876, The Art Institute of Chicago © Margaret Day Blake, Mr. and Mrs. Henry C.Woods, and William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowments

WILLIAM-SAMUEL HOWITT, Lion Attacking a Stag, Medium: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, © Yale Center for British Art

Rev. John Lewis Petit, Wetton, Undated, The Rev. J L Petit Society © The Rev. J L Petit Society. All Rights Reserved Thor’s cave, nr Wetton, Staffordshire, England.