Perseus rescues Andromeda, a plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenère, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. Gaultier, or Galter, was a French engraver, born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641. Perseus stopped in the kingdom of Aethiopia and rescued Andromeda after he slew the monster Cretus, setting her free, claimed her in marriage

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Perseus rescues Andromeda, a plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenère, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. Gaultier, or Galter, was a French engraver, born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641. Perseus stopped in the kingdom of Aethiopia and rescued Andromeda after he slew the monster Cretus, setting her free, claimed her in marriage

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