Amphitrite, Greek goddess of the sea, wife of Poseidon. Naked woman with billowing veil standing on a scallop-shell chariot drawn by dolphins, attended by Nereids. Salacia in Roman myth. Copperplate engraving by Simon after a design by Etienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois, sculptor to the king, from Sylvain Marechal's Le Pantheon, ou les Figures de la Fable, Chez Simon, 16 rue Pagevin, Paris, 1787.

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