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Perseus showing the Head of Medusa to his enemies, from a series of twenty plates depicting mythological subjects, plate 8, bound in Oeuvres. Vol. III

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Etching; second state of two (Préaud)
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1933
Title: Perseus showing the Head of Medusa to his enemies, from a series of twenty plates depicting mythological subjects, plate 8, bound in Oeuvres. Vol. III
Description:
Etching; second state of two (Préaud).

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