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A woman mistakes a cow for the Angel of Death, from a Lights of Canopus (Anwar-i Suhaili) of Kashifi (Iranian, d. 1504)

c. 1610
Gum tempera on paper
38.1 × 26.7 cm (15 × 10.5 in)

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A previous owner identified the scene as the first cesarean section.

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