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Johannes Meursius

Plate 32: Venus asking Jupiter for protection; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

1636
Engraving
30.8 × 44.5 cm (12.1 × 17.5 in)

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