https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-14/pages/plate-062/
Mythology: ferryman Charon, in his boat (left, distance) (don’t pay the ferryman ’til he gets you to the other side! sang Chris De Berg) is bringing souls to the underworld. Hermes is there watching.
This image was over 460x280mm, 18½ × 11 inches, spanning a page fold so two scans joined for 33893 * 20083 pixels at 16 bits per channel (over 6 gigabytes per layer!)
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