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