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Myrrha, retired into the country of the Sabeans, is deliver'd of Adonis, and afterwards metamorphosed into a tree, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

Ovid|Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen|William Walker|George Kearsley

April 1, 1775

Attribution
|After| | Ovid|Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen|William Walker|George Kearsley | | | Roman, Sulmo 43 BCE–17 CE Tomis, Moesia|French, Valenciennes 1720–1778 Brussels|British, Thirsk, North Yorkshire 1729–1793 London|London
Medium
Etching and engraving
Physical dimensions
Plate: 7 13/16 × 5 13/16 in. (19.9 × 14.8 cm) Sheet: 10 3/16 × 7 11/16 in. (25.8 × 19.6 cm)
Credit line
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
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