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Coast scene with the rape of Europa, illustration from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' (II, 833-75), record of painting in Utrecht from the Liber Veritatis; on seashore in foreground Europa with attendants, Jupiter in the guise of a bull, and at r cattle and goats, beyond at r buildings along shore, and at l of centre a ship Pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper
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