Hercules and Atlas

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Hercules sits in a vessel drifting at sea while Atlas can be seen holding up the heavens in the distance

Hercules and Atlas.

(Facing p. 126.)

Artist

Name:: Crane, Walter
Dates:: 1845-1915
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: The New York Public Library

Book

Title:: A wonder book for girls & boys
Author:: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Publisher:: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892
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Hercules sits in a small, circular vessel drifting upon the sea, while the colossal figure of Atlas looms in the distance, holding up the heavens against a mountainous horizon.

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