The Amazonian War. A.M. 2791
WAG 7691
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This is one of a group of drawings by British artist and book illustrator Edward Francis Burney, depicting scenes from Greek and Roman history and mythology.
In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a group of female warriors. They lived in a single-sex community and did not associate with men other than to bear children, raising the daughters and abandoning the sons to die.