The Abduction of Cloelia
Maker
(artist)
1523-1605
(printmaker)
1571-1633
(publisher)
1537-1612
1523-1605
(printmaker)
1571-1633
(publisher)
1537-1612
Title
The Abduction of Cloelia
Dimensions
Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 28.1 cm
Width: 28.1 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.2377
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Cloelia
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: within image, lower: “Ioan. Strad. inven. Theodor. Galle Sculp. Phls Galle excud. //”; lower margin: “Facta virum silio, superas ti, Cloelia, sexum / AEtatemq3 animis, et regem & flumen Etruscum; / Obsidibusq3 fuga dum te duce consulis, hostis / Porsena Virgineis cessit perterritus ausis. / Quae facient exempla mares, si foemina tanto / Imposuit finem intrepidè per foedera bello ? / 2 //”.
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