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Engraving of a woman holding a salamander in a kitchen, with a fire and cooking pot in the background and a fish on a table.

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An engraved allegorical scene shows a woman with curled hair and a ruff collar holding a salamander, a creature associated with fire, while another fish lies on a table beside a knife. In the background, a smaller figure tends a hearth with a cooking pot above the flames. This work, titled Fire, is attributed to Jacob de Gheyn II and dated 1588.

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