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LastDodo number
5233015
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
Het eiland van de Sirenen
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25,5 x 18,8
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Etching depicting the island of the Sirens. The Sirens were mythological creatures with the body of a bird and the head of a woman. The fleet is anchored at the rear. On the left the men are attacked by the Sirens. In the foreground a man wearing armor. Possibly published in London by Jacob Tonson in 1697 in "The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneid. Translated into English Verse; by Mr. Dryden. Adorn'd with a Hundred Sculptures."

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