Statue of Meleager, mythical hero of Aetolia, with his hunting dog and the head of the Calydonian boar. Copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BC attributed to Skopas. Now in the Vatican. Meleagri statua vetus marmorea. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Cannetti from Copperplates of the most beautiful ancient statues of Rome, Calcografia di piu belle statue antiche a Roma, engraved by Cannetti all'Arco della Ciambella, published by Gaetano Quojani, Rome, 1779.

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