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"Ascanius Kills Sylvia's Stag" (Book VII, lines 483ff.)

A drawing of a hunting scene set in a forest, in the foreground of which a stag sporting a jeweled collar is chased by three dogs.

Ascanius Kills Sylvia's Stag (Book VII, lines 483ff.), ca. 1615
Pen and brown ink over black chalk; 117 x 156 mm
Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus (inv. no. PK.OT.02733)