Sphinx with Two Bodies

Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After Giulio Romano Italian

Not on view

Female sphinx standing to front with basket of flowers on her head, over two lions, lying on the ground, their heads obscured. From a series of six plates, etched by Hollar after drawings by Giulio Romano from the collection of Nicolas Lanier, designs for stucco medallions at the Palazzo Te in Mantua.

Sphinx with Two Bodies, Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London), Etching, only state

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