1-217-887 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The labours of Hercules, 16th century, (1870). When Hercules went to search for the golden apples of the Hesperides, he wrestled Antaeus to pass through his country of Libya. When Hercules reached the land of the Hyperboreans, where Atlas held the world, Hercules tricked Atlas into getting the apples for him. Faces of a hexagonal enamelled saltcellar executed in Limoges, France, for Francis I. A wood engraving from The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, (London, 1870).