Print, book-illustration, Theodoor van Thulden, 1635-1641 (c.)

Plate 39: hercules at the crossroads (the choice of hercules); at the centre ferdinand, wearing a lion's skin and gripping his club, takes his leave of venus, bacchus, and cupid, tugging at his garments, as minerva takes his other arm; in the right foreground is a cannon and other military implements; on the hilltop in the background stand the temples of virtue and honour, guarded by hybrid beasts; a thunderbolt strikes at left in the sky; after peter paul rubens; illustration for gaspar gevaerts' "pompa introitus" (antwerp, 1641) etching. Date: 1635-1641 (c.). Dimensions: Height: 310 mm (plate-mark); Height: 649 mm (sheet); Width: 263 mm; Width: 543 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Gaspar Gevaerts. Collection: British Museum. Print, book-illustration (BM 1884,0112.69)