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Saint Christine: she is condemned to be bitten by snakes in a prison cell, but persuades them not to attack her. Engraving by Niccolò Mellini after V. Pizzoli.

The snake in the grass: an idyll in which a shepherdess and a young man make love is disturbed by the approach of a snake. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1781, after J. B. Huet.

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Saint Christine: she is condemned to be bitten by snakes in a prison cell, but persuades them not to attack her. Engraving by Niccolò Mellini after V. Pizzoli.

The snake in the grass: an idyll in which a shepherdess and a young man make love is disturbed by the approach of a snake. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1781, after J. B. Huet.