Quintus Fabius Labio stands behind a kneeling man lifting a stone.

  • Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536
Date:
[1531]
Reference:
3334582i
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About this work

Description

Weapons lie discarded on the ground in front; a large crowd of men stand either side of him separated by a strip of land at the edge of which stands another group of men.

Publication/Creation

[Augsburg]: [1531]

Physical description

1 print : woodcut on paper; 13.7 x 15.6 cm

Contributors

Related material

print published in: Officia M.T.C.. (b31038578)

Lettering

Bears name 'Quintus Fabius Labio' within a banner upper centre of image

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer
Relates to an episode in the Officia M.T.C in which Quintus Fabius Labio adjudicated on the disputed frontier between Nola and Naples to secure a strip of territory between the two for Rome
Mounted with 3334583i

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3334582i

Ownership note

Purchased from Puttick & Simpson on 13/08/09 [13th August 1909]

Type/Technique

Subjects

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