Interior with a fireplace and a candlestick with burning candle, at night. Thetis sits crouching by the fireplace and burns the fire in which she wants to keep Achilles to make him immortal. Achilles leans on her knee. On the right in the background Peleus is watching. In the middle below: 4. Fourth print from a series of fourteen with scenes from the life of Achilles, Thetis puts Achilles in the fire Scenes from the life of Achilles (series title) Vitam et mortem achilli (series title), print maker: J. Alexander Janssens, Victor Honoré Janssens, Zuid-Nederland, c. 1700, paper, engraving

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