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Antonio Tempesta

Plate 124: Hecuba and the Trojan Women Murdering Polymestor (Hecuba Polymnestori oculos ervit), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

1606
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10 × 11.8 cm (3.9 × 4.6 in)

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