Apollo kills Coronis, Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title), Apollo shoots the pregnant Coronis. The raven that had exposed her adultery flies above the shooter. In the background on the right you can see how Apollo takes the child Asclepius from Coronis' belly; to the left of this the cremation of Coronis is depicted. Two lines of Latin text underneath the scene. This print is part of a series of 52 prints that depict stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the second series., print, print

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