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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1500 - circa 1600; Classification(s): engraved gems, ringstone, intaglio cutting; Acquisition: given by de Pass, A.A. [CG 719]
Description: Hercules and Omphale facing front, both nude, with lion-skin and clock respectively hanging from their shoulders behind them. His right arm is round her shoulders, his left hand holds her right hand which she has passed round his waist. She is leaning on his club; he holds the lion-skin in his left hand. mount: gold ring, type 1a | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | engraved gems Unknown ringstone | Temporal: | name=sixteenth century; start=1500; end=1600 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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