Accession number
PML 5639.46
Published
A Paris : Chez N. Bonnart, rüe St. Jacques, à l'aigle [169-].
Notes
Title from item.
One of a series of 10 plates representing famous women of antiquity.
With five lines of prose below caption title: Auguste, et M. Antoine ayant vaincu Brutus, et Cassius meurtrier du grand Cesar ...
Item no. 46 of v. 2 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm
One of a series of 10 plates representing famous women of antiquity.
With five lines of prose below caption title: Auguste, et M. Antoine ayant vaincu Brutus, et Cassius meurtrier du grand Cesar ...
Item no. 46 of v. 2 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 234 x 176 mm; plate mark: 278 x 193 mm; sheet: 326 x 231 mm
Summary
Print shows a woman in fashionable 17th century dress holding an asp to her breast, with two maids standing beside her at far left.
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