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  • Chiron the centaur teaching Achilles the arts of magic. Etching by A.M. Zanetti, 1758, after G. Zompini after G.B. Castiglione.
  • Hector reproaching Paris for not fighting in the Trojan War. Stipple engraving by G.S. and J.G. Facius after Angelica Kauffman, 1788.
  • Bacchus [Dionysus] and Ariadne. Engraving by P.S. van Gunst after Titian.
  • Philemon and Baucis providing food and shelter for Jupiter [Zeus] and Mercury [Hermes] who are disguised as travellers. Engraving after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • The sacrifice of Iphigenia or Polyxena: the victim is about to have her throat cut and her blood caught in a bowl when a god with a drawn sword appears. Etching by G. de Lairesse.
  • Hercules and Omphale. Engraving by B.W. Dolendo after B. Spranger.
  • The Farnese Hercules seen from behind. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Niobe grieving over the loss of her fourteen children while holding some of their dead bodies. Etching by B. Pinelli after F. Rehberg, 1810.
  • Hercules rescuing Hesione from a sea-monster. Engraving by B. Picart after C. Le Brun.
  • Bacchus and Ariadne on a chariot accompanied by bacchants, Silenus etc. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • Bacchus and Ariadne on a chariot accompanied by bacchants, Silenus etc. Engraving after C. Cesio after Annibale Carracci.
  • Circe, Ulysses [Odysseus] and Mercury [Hermes]. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • Achilles dragging the body of Hector around Troy. Mezzotint after G. Hamilton, 1794.
  • Laocoön and his sons. Engraving by Defehrt after G. Audran.
  • Chiron the centaur teaching Achilles to use a bow and arrow. Lithograph after J.B. Regnault.
  • The centaur Nessus carrying off Deianeira. Etching with aquatint by F. Bartolozzi after G.B. Cipriani.
  • Diana [Artemis] and Actaeon. Engraving by J.B. Beauvarlet after J. Rottenhammer.
  • Diana [Artemis] and Actaeon. Engraving by G. Sadeler after J. Heintz.
  • Mercury flying off with the head of Argus whose decapitated body lies on the ground. Red chalk drawing.
  • Laocoön. Etching by Sisto Badalocchio, 1606.
  • Silenus holding the infant Bacchus. Crayon manner print by J.F. Cazenave after Eugène Bourgeois.
  • The écorché figure of Laocoön, wrestling with a snake. Pencil drawing by C.H.M. Kerr, 1882.
  • Orpheus charming the animals with music. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after A. Hondius.
  • Laocoön attacked by a sea snake. Engraving attributed to P. Lombard.
  • The seated skeleton of Laocoön, wrestling with a snake. Pencil drawing by C.H.M. Kerr, 1882.
  • Silenus holding the infant Bacchus: view from the front left. Etching by F. Perrier.
  • Diana [Artemis]: she changes Actaeon into a deer. Engraving by D. Sornique after B. Boullogne.
  • The god Bacchus presenting wine to countrymen; left, Icarus being beaten by drunken men. Engraving by J. Matham after D. Vinckeboons.
  • Silenus, holding grapes and crowned with vines, flanked by a maenad and a faun. Engraving by C. Faucci, c. 1768, after G. B. Cipriani after P. Rubens.
  • Harpies try to keep open the doors of the temple of Janus, but they are clubbed by Hercules. Coloured mezzotint by A. Blooteling after G. de Lairesse.