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Plate 41: Perseus Killing Medusa (Anguiparum Meduse caput praescundit Perseus), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

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Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1951
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Title: Plate 41: Perseus Killing Medusa (Anguiparum Meduse caput praescundit Perseus), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
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