Phaedra, Cretan princess, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, sister of Ariadne, and wife of Theseus, king of Athens. Head of a woman with her hair tied up in a simple band. Fedra. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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