Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog featured in both Greek and Roman mythology, was said to guard the entrance to hell. The illustrator questions the need of guard dogs at the gates of hell by going to the extreme of having a beautiful young woman in white accidentally coming upon Cerberus. This public domain image of the mythological creature Cerberus is ready for downloading.
The author of The Mythological Zoo introduced the children of 1912 to a menagerie full of mythological beasts, heroes and villians. All of them were brought to life by the artist Oliver Herford (1863-1935).
This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.
