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Perseus Killing Medusa (Anguiparum Medusae caput praescindit Perseus), from The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum), plate 41

Etching, The Metamorphoses of Ovid

The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of S. Paul Jones 1935

Antonio Tempesta (Artist) Willem Jansz. (Publisher)

Title: Perseus Killing Medusa (Anguiparum Medusae caput praescindit Perseus), from The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum), plate 41

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Etching, The Metamorphoses of Ovid.

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