Monday, July 23, 2012

Woman standing at the edge of a wood, and about to take her own...







Woman standing at the edge of a wood, and about to take her own life with a spear; illustration to Act III scene 1 of Bonarelli della Rovere’s ‘Filli di Sciro, favola pastorale’ (Amsterdam: Elsevier; Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1678). c.1678


Print made by Sébastien Leclerc


The British Museum




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