Picture No | 10043600 |
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Description | Picus into Woodpecker |
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Picus, a Roman forest deity, rejects the offered affection of the witch Circe, so to avenge herself she changes him into a woodpecker
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Source | Eisen, engraved by W Walker, in a 1775 English edition of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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