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The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished Hydra

c. 1618
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on paperboard
22.3 × 12.8 cm (8.8 × 5 in)

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