Relief with personification of the element Air above arch on west side of Civic Hall in Stadhuis op de Dam, Hubert Quellinus, after Artus Quellinus (I), 1719 - 1783, Relief with personification of the element Air above left (southern) arch on west side of Civic Hall in Stadhuis op de Dam, Amsterdam. In her left hand a peacock, in her right a chameleon - the animal that according to Pliny did not eat or drink, but fed on air (Historia naturalis 8:33). Numbered at lower right: CII. N. 2. Relief with personification of the element Air above the left (southern) arch on the west side of the Civic

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