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Engraving of the Tarasque

A sixteenth-century style engraving of the Tarasque, a creature with a lion's head, six legs, and a spiked turtle shell, standing on the bank of a river under a stormy sky.

Sixteenth-century engraved plate of the Tarasque on the bank of the Rhône river, stormy dramatic light See more

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