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"Aeneas Enters the Underworld" (Book VI, lines 285ff.)

A drawing of a man in antique armor accompanied by a cloaked figure walking through an apocalyptic landscape with ruined walls and towers and several naked figures suffering various tortures.

Aeneas Enters the Underworld (Book VI, lines 285ff.), ca. 1615
Pen and brown ink, heightened with white (partially oxidized); 118 x 163 mm
New York, private collection