Iphigenia told of the death of her father Agamemnon. Her brother Orestes in diadem at left asks why she is sad. A female servant Flabellifera fans Iphigenia. Pylades, cousin of Orestes, stands at right. Scene from Euripedes’ Iphigenia in Tauris. 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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