Aesacus and Hesperie, Etched and engraved by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British, after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British, 1819, Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 7 × 10 1/4 inches ( × 26 cm) and Mount: 11 1/4 × 14 1/2 inches ( × cm), Aesacus is changed into a diving bird while pursuing the nymph Hesperia (or Asterope), who is bitten by a snake, grooming, hill, landscape, literary theme, Metamorphoses, nymph, pool, religious and mythological subject, river, riverbank, rock, spying

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