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The Abduction of Cloelia

Maker

(artist)
1523-1605

(printmaker)
1571-1633

(publisher)
1537-1612

Title

The Abduction of Cloelia

Dimensions

Height: 21.8 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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