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| Salvator Rosa Jason pouring Medea's potion over the Dragon ca. 1663-64 etching and drypoint British Museum |
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| Antonio Tempesta Jason putting the Dragon to sleep 1606 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Stefano della Bella Jason pouring sleeping potion onto the Dragon (from Jeu des Fables) 1644 etching British Museum |
from The Metamorphoses
Jason's remaining task was to use Medea's herbs
to drug the unsleeping dragon, who guarded the golden tree
in the pride of its towering crest, its three-forked tongue and its hooked fangs.
After he'd sprinkled the monster with juice of a herb from the Lethe,
repeating a spell three times to induce a motionless slumber,
a spell which could calm a troubled sea or a river in spate,
sleep finally settled on eyes which had never known it, and Jason
was able to capture the Golden Fleece.
– Ovid (8 AD), translated by David Raeburn (2004)
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner Jason encountering the Dragon (from the artist's Liber Studiorum, recording his completed paintings) ca. 1806-1807 drawing Tate Gallery |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner Jason encountering the Dragon (from the artist's Liber Studiorum, recording his completed paintings) ca. 1807 etching and engraving Tate Gallery |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner Preliminary Study for the figure of Jason encountering the Dragon ca. 1799-1802 drawing Tate Gallery |
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| John Boydell Jason and the Dragon 1765 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| René Boyvin after Léonard Thiry Jason and the Dragon 1563 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Bernard Picart Jason seizing the Golden Fleece 1731 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Bonaventura Genelli and Hermann Schütz Jason stealing the Golden Fleece ca. 1839-40 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Jean-Baptiste Nolin Jason carrying off the Golden Fleece ca. 1690-1725 etching and engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous French makers Jason taking the Golden Fleece 1784 wool and silk tapestry Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Erasmus Quellinus Jason with the Golden Fleece ca. 1636-38 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Gustave Moreau Jason with Medea, victorious over the Dragon 1865 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |