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The Head of Cyrus brought to Queen Tomyris; the queen standing on a dais underneath a canopy at left, followed by servants and her train supported by two boys, while looking down at Cyrus' head, which is being dipped into a vessel with blood at centre, soldiers and wise men onlooking at right, a dog in lower right, twisted columns in background; after Peter Paul Rubens. c.1786/1808 Etching and engraving
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