Hercules as the Deity of Eloquence

A facsimile of a drawing now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.212); reproduced in reverse. The drawing, formerly attributed to Raphael, is now ascribed to his school. Lettered with title and production details. This is a monochrome impression of a chiaroscuro woodcut plate published in ‘Recueil Crozat’, Paris 1729, plate 38. Other chiaroscuro woodcut impressions at RCINs 851700, 851701, 851702.