Gerard Vandergucht
British, b.1696, d.1776
Hercules And The Bull, Labour Eight From The Labours Of Hercules
- Engraving
- Presented by Mr K Morant
- 300 x 235mm
- 83/86
Tags: animals, battles, bulls (animals), Classical, clubs (weapons), cross-hatching, men (male humans), monochrome, mythology (literary genre), nudes (representations), people (agents)
Compare British Museum number 1859,0709.668.
From 'Tooke's Pantheon', i.e. 'The Pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods and most illustrious heroes, in a short, plain and familiar method by way of dialogue' which first appeared in 1694 and which was republished many times over the next two hundred years.
It is a translation of François-Antoine Pomey’s 'Pantheum mythicum, seu Fabulosa deorum historia', which was originally published in Latin in 1659.
