Allegorical figure of the genius of Alexandria in Egypt. A woman seated by a river, her right arm on the head of the Nile and her left on a basket with three ears of wheat. Rowboat and dhow on the river, temples to Osiris and Harpocrates, animals on the shore. In lapis lazuli. Alessandria in lapis lazzali. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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