It is close kin to his Leda & the Swan plate, in which Zeus again takes animal form, and survives as the worked plate itself, the design bitten into metal. It belongs with his wider set of mythology etchings.
Europa and the Bull
Etching plate
Europa and the Bull is Bruce Thomson's etching plate of the Greek myth in which Zeus, in the form of a white bull, carries the Phoenician princess Europa across the sea to Crete.
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