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Johannes Meursius

Plate 15: Ferdinand as Hannibal crossing the Alps; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

1636
Engraving
37.3 × 27.8 cm (14.7 × 10.9 in)

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