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"Anchises Appears to Aeneas in a Dream" (Book V, lines 721ff.)

A drawing of an old man with a long beard dressed in robes appearing to a younger man reclining in a canopied bed set in a darkened room.

Anchises Appears to Aeneas in a Dream (Book V, lines 721ff.), ca. 1615
Pen and brown ink, with wash and black chalk; 114 x 152 mm
Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus (inv. no. PK.OT.02736)