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Antonio Tempesta

Plate 147: Cipus with his Horns (Cippus regnum in Romanos detestans exilium eligit), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

1606
Etching
10.3 × 11.6 cm (4.1 × 4.6 in)

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