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In the Garden of Eden, while the serpent curls around the tree of knowledge, Eve is about to taste the apple. Coloured etching.
Wellcome Collection

In the Garden of Eden, while the serpent curls around the tree of knowledge, Eve is about to taste the apple. Coloured etching.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Et aspiciens arborem ... gut zu essen ware ... Med. Folo. no. 49. Cum gratia et privilegio sac. caes. majestatis ... Georg Balthasar Probst excud A.V.

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