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Antonio Tempesta

Plate 82: Hercules and Acheloüs (Luctatur, et vincit Acheolum Hercules), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

1606
Etching
10.5 × 11.7 cm (4.1 × 4.6 in)

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