Virgil Solis' Semele from his series for Ovid's Metamorphoses. ca. 1570

Virgil Solis' Semele from his series for Ovid's Metamorphoses. ca. 1570
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Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 11 April 2018: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Virgil Solis’ Semele from his series for Ovid’s Metamorphoses. ca.…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the eleventh day of April, 2018. Finis.

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