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Description: | A woman riding on a bull's back across open water. She is wearing a loose gown and the bull has floral garlands around its horns. There are mermen and mermaids surrounding the central figures of the bull and woman. There is an eagle above them and to the left and three cherubs above and to the right. A sea monster can be seen at the lower centre edge and cliffs to the right background.
Technique: engraving (printing process)
medium: ink (black)
L'Evenment d'Europe [The Rape of Europa] by Louis S. Lempereur, Jean-Baptiste M. Pierre (after), about 1760, (1966.704). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.103639 | Go to resource |
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