Hercules and hydra

Herakles and Hydra, etching by Julian Jordanov (bookplate)

Hercules and the Hydra and Hercules and Anteo - Antonio del Pollaiolo - Google Arts & Culture

Etching engraving handmade style illustration of Hercules or Heracles of Greek mythology wearing a lion skin head fighting a Lernaean Hydra or three headed serpent on isolated white background. Editable EPS8 (you can use any vector program), JPEG and Transparent PNG (can edit in any graphic editor) files are included.

The Hydra is a vicious nine-headed monster that can grow back its heads. The Lernaean Hydra was born to Typhon and Echidna. While not the most powerful of its siblings, the Hydra was a fearsome and vicious monsters with nine heads (at birth). The monster terrorized the Kingdom of Lerna, chasing all of the inhabitants away with the toxic acid and fumes that it spewed at them and killing livestock. When one of the Hydra's heads was decapitated, two more snake-heads would grow in its place. As…

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Hercules vs Hydra

A tattoo sketch concept of Hercules fighting the hydra

Hercules fighting the hydra at the gate of the Château de Bialystok by Johann Chrysostomus Redler was created in 1757 for Jan Klemens Branicki