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Queen Semiramidis Attacked by a Lion

Maker

(artist)

(engraver)

(publisher)
active 1660-1681 (Life dates)

Title

Queen Semiramidis Attacked by a Lion

Date of Production

1679

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20 cm
Width: 23.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2904

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: above the image, upper left margin, black ink: “Cap. V. //”; upper right margin, black ink: “Sect. II//”; within the image, in a cartouche, black ink: “Eclypon Reginae Semiramidis cum / Leone concertantis: referente He- / rodoto et Diodoro, Etesia extrac- / tum, juxta figuram in Ismendis Mo- / numentis depictam. //.” Mount: below the image, centre, typed, black ink: “FLEMISH SCHOOL//”; lower right corner, black ink: “Turris Babel, Amsterdam, 1679.//”

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