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Emperor Heliogabal in debate with the philosophers (Series: On the power of women)

Maker

(artist)
1544-1603

(engraver)
1560/1 - 1628 or 32 (Life dates)

(publisher)
1560/1 - 1628 or 32 (Life dates)

Title

Emperor Heliogabal in debate with the philosophers (Series: On the power of women)

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 28.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2878

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within the image, lower margin, left, black ink: “R S fec et excud.”; lower margin, right, black ink: “I a winge in.”; below the image, black ink: “Infanda ante alios venere Heliogabbalus omnes / Nobilior: sacros meretricum plebe prophanat / Fasces: ac Musis pulsis muliebre, togatam / In gentem, imperium, nutum numemque coronat. / Faemineoque furens tanto flagrauit amore / In sua sacrilegas vocitarit ut impiger vltro / Membra manus, sexum doctas violare virilem. / Sed fustas patriae persoluit sanguine poenas. //”.

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