Plate 40: bellerophon slaying the chimera: bellerophon mounted on the winged horse pegasus charges through the air, driving his spear into the shoulder of the chimera; the fire-breathing hybrid beast with a lion's head, a snake's head for its tail and a goat's head protruding from its back, rears back from the force of bellerophon's blow; a skull and bones appear below the rocky cropping in the foregound at the right; to the left the landscape opens into the distance; after peter paul rubens; illustration for gaspar gevaerts' "pompa introitus" (antwerp, 1641)
etching. Date: 1635-1641 (c.). Dimensions: Height: 308 mm (plate-mark); Height: 649 mm (sheet); Width: 262 mm; Width: 543 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Gaspar Gevaerts. Collection: British Museum. Print, book-illustration (BM 1884,0112.71)
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