Hercules the Conqueror (Hercule Vainqueur)

Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers1834

Details

Title: Hercules the Conqueror (Hercule Vainqueur)
Creator: Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers
Date Created: 1834
Subject Keywords: government, Hercules, satire
Signatures / Inscriptions: [not inscribed with artist’s name]
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Funds donated by The Monday Club of Wesleyan University (1893–1993), 1998
Materials & Techniques: Lithograph on white wove paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Printed by Delaunois, rue de Bouloy; distributed by Aubert; published in “La Caricature” 1 May 1834, pp. 382–83
Dimensions: 1859
Bibliography: Beatrice Farwell, The Charged Image (Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1989), pp. 154–55, cat. no. 168.
Associated People: Created by Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers (French, 1804-1859)
Accession Number: 1998.8.1

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