Apollo, god of music and dance, and the satyr Marsyas. Apollo stands with a lyre, while Marsyas is tied to a tree to be flayed alive after their contest. In red jasper in the Farnese cabinet Naples. opperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Dagley from Gems, Selected from the Antique, with Illustrations, John Murray, London, 1804.

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