Bust of an allegorical female figure of Africa

Head of a woman with curls under an elephant-head helmet, an allegorical female figure of Africa. From an ancient oval gem in sardonyx. Africa. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de'Lazari, Rome, 1699

1699 17th Century Allegorical Classical Mythology Curls Etienne Picart Filososi Giovanni Angelo Canini Greek Myth Iconografia Ignatio Delazari Orator Poeti Ed Oratori Dell Antichita Regi Roman Myth Sardonyx

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