The daughters of Aglaura (Mercury and Herse)

Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
 After Adam Elsheimer German

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Mercury and Herse; the seven daughters of Aglaura holding baskets of flowers walk along a country path to the right towards a temple, Mercury flying above, within an oval. Related to a painting by Paul Bril and Elsheimer in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, copying figures from center.

The daughters of Aglaura (Mercury and Herse), Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London), Etching, only state

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