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Virgilius Solis, the Elder

Schöne Figuren auß dem Ovidio (Ovid's Metamorphoses), plate twelve from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century

1569, assembled into portfolio 1937
Woodcut on paper
9.9 × 13.1 cm (3.9 × 5.2 in)

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