2-547-125 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lynceus and Hypermnestra, 1479 (1964). According to Greek mythology Hypermnestra was queen of the Argives. Lynceus was her husband. She defied the order of her father, Danaus, to murder Lyceus in his sleep because he had honoured her wish to remain a virgin. From Anton Sorg's edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's, De Mulieribus Claris (On Famous Women), Ulm, 1479. A print from A History of Wood Engraving, by Douglas Percy Bliss, Spring Books, London, 1964.