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Atalanta and Meleager Killing the Wild Boar (Calidonius ab Atalanta aper primo vulneratus a Meleagro interimitur), plate 76 from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid" (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum)

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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: Atalanta and Meleager Killing the Wild Boar (Calidonius ab Atalanta aper primo vulneratus a Meleagro interimitur), plate 76 from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid" (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum)
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Etching, The Metamorphoses of Ovid.

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