The seated figures are Maia, eldest of the Pleiades and mother of Mercury, and Typhis, son of Nepture and Argo’s pilot. Four other Greek soldiers with two spears. From a vase showing Hercules with Atlas and the Pleiades. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Kirk (1765-1797) from Sir William Hamilton’s Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the Late Sir Hamilton, T. M’Lean, London, 1834.

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