Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ... library of George John, earl Spencer (1814)
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847, John Rylands Library · London · leaf 634
ADDITIONS AND EMENDATIONS. 593 The heroic Jason and Medea are thus represented, at the head of theXVIth chapter. The latter has the head of the slaughtered Absirthiusin her hand; while a crowned figure is stooping and picking up hissevered limbs. Two horsemen are in the back-ground. … Arachne, and her transformation into a spider, is the next subjectrepresented. It is singularly simple and ludicrous. Nor is the follow-ing representation of Hercules and lole, of which only a part is hereexhibited, of a less whimsical character. See fol. xxiij. bctrulcs
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