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"Death of Camilla" (Book XI, lines 785‒835)

A drawing of a young woman in antique armor dying in the arms of two soldiers who are trying to support her collapsing figure.

Death of Camilla (Book XI, lines 785‒835), ca. 1615
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black chalk; 115 x 150 mm
Sotheby’s, London, January 25, 2007, lot 25