Lithography titled „Den farnesiske tjuren. Zetos och amfion binda dirke vid en vild tjurs horn/Laokoons-gruppen. Laokoon och hans söner blifva dödade af ormar“.

Artist , lithography author unknown.

Notes: Jönköping Lith. Aktiebolag. XXII. Schlyter, monumenta antiqvitatis.

From „Monvmenta antiqvitatis minnen fran Greklands och Roms forntid för vänner af antiken och tillika sasom askadningsmateriel for undervisningen i den klassiska fornkunskapen vid läroverken utgifna af D:r Gust. Ragn. Schlyter“.Jönköping. Jönköpings lithografiska aktiebolags boktryckeri. 1876.

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Approx. image size 43, 3 x 29, 9/49, 8 x 34, 9 cm.

Condition: good.