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Tomyris with the Head of King Cyrus

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Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel 1949

Copy after Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix (Artist) After a design by Crispijn van den Broeck (Designer) Formerly attributed to Georg Pencz (Former Attribution)

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Title: Tomyris with the Head of King Cyrus

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