Hendrik Goltzius (1558–1616), The Great Hercules, 1589
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The Great Hercules, engraving, 5.62 cm x 4.05 cm, 1589, artist: Hendrik Goltzius (1558–1616); source: © The Trustees of the British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/134117001, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
The engraving of The Great Hercules, also known as Knollenman or bulbous man by Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) shows a colossal Hercules confronting the viewer of the print with a naked body of bulging muscles, long-hair and bushy moustache but with quite a disproportionately small penis.
The Great Hercules, engraving, 5.62 cm x 4.05 cm, 1589, artist: Hendrik Goltzius (1558–1616); source: © The Trustees of the British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/134117001, 
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
