An allegorical engraving print designed by the French artist Bernard Picart (1673-1733). The composition shows Hercules being crowned as he delivers the chained-up vices to personifications of truth and justice while Fame plays the trumpet overhead.

Allegorical Figures and their Attributes:

1. Victory (winged and trumpets)

2. Truth (sun on her chest)

3. Justice (scales)

4. Hercules (club and lion skin)

Vices:

5. Pride (dress and peacock)

6. Sloth (turtle on her head)

7. Wrath (blind and unsheathed sword)

8. Unfettered overindulgence/ Gluttony (drunk Bacchus with goat)

9. Vanity (bare-chested Venus)

10. Lust (Cupid with bow)

11. Greed (Bag of coins)

12. The Occult(?)/witchcraft(?) (Cloaked, rabbit, owl, wand and book)

13. Infamy(?) (wings on head, lyre, trumpet, writing)

14. Envy (snakes in her head that bite back at her)