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Head of Hercules

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Date: 18th century
Medium: White jasperware head on pink ground
Culture: British
Department: Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Institution: Harvard Art Museums
Object ID: 143611

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Hercules in right profile, his club visible behind his neck.

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Provenance: [Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; [through Cooper and Griffith, New York] to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1910, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

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