Leda, wife of Tyndareus, surprised by Zeus or Jupiter transformed into a swan. Or the goddess Nemesis and the father of gods from Hyginus' fables. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.

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