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"Mercury Bids Aeneas to Leave Carthage" (Book IV, lines 554ff.)

A drawing of a god appearing on a bank of clouds to a man in classical armor reclining on the rocky shores of a deserted seaport, where several ships are anchored.

Mercury Bids Aeneas to Leave Carthage (Book IV, lines 554ff.), ca. 1615
Black chalk with pen and brown ink, washed with brown ink, heightened with white; 113 x 157 mm
Antwerp, private collection