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Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

A horizontally oriented print in black ink on beige paper depicting Hercules, a muscular man, carrying two columns. Hercules steps to our right, back to us, with one column braced against his right shoulder and the other under his left arm. He walks through a city, domed buildings and columned arches extending across the background. Hatches and stippling shade the scene. Written across the upper center is “Gaditanas Columnas Statuit Hercules.”

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules Carrying the Columns of Gades

1545

Hans Sebald Beham

(German, 1500–1550)
Germany
engraving
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1950.466
Catalogue raisonné: Pauli 108.101 ; Bartsch VIII.158.103
Location: Not on view
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