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Carwitham, Thomas, active 1723
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II
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Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book V
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18th century
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brown ink
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laid paper
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pen
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brown wash
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graphite
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red chalk
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watercolor
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wove paper
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religious and mythological subject
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Ascalabus (Stellio, Abas) changed into a lizard: Ceres changes the boy into a lizard as punishment for mocking her, when quenching her thirst too avidly (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 456)
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angels
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biblical studies
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claws
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Dunster
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England
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Minehead
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Somerset
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Ascalabus, son of Misme
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Callisto, one of the followers of Artemis
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Ceres, Roman deity
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Diana
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Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE)
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Jupiter
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Misme, mother of Ascalabus
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Moses
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Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Moses and the Brazen Serpent - Design for the chapel at Dunster Castle
ca. 1723
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Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Jupiter and Callisto: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2
ca. 1723
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Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Ceres and Abas: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 5
ca. 1723
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William Taverner, 1703–1772
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