The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is shown seated on a chair with the asp wriggling up her left arm while her maid shields her face in a gesture of horror and grief. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 175-, after C. Netscher.

  • Netscher, Caspar, 1635 or 1636-1684.
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[between 1750 and 1759]
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42962i
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Cleopatra VII (69 BC-30 BC), Egyptian Queen, lover of Julius Caesar and later the wife of Mark Antony. After the Roman armies of Octavian (the future Emperor Augustus) defeated their combined forces, Antony and Cleopatra killed themselves, and Egypt fell under Roman domination. Rather than be dragged through the city in which she had been borne as a queen, she killed herself, possibly by means of an asp

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Paris (Quai des Augustins, a côte de l'Hotel d'Auvergne) : chez l'auteur [Wille], [between 1750 and 1759]

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1 print : line engraving, with etching ; image 33.7 x 28 cm

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Mort de Cléopatre. Gravé d'après le tableau original de Netscher, d'un pied 9 pouces de haut sur 1 pied 4 pouces 1/2 de large, du cabinet de Mr. e Comte de Vence Maréchal de Camp des armées du roy. Peint par Gaspar Netscher. Gravé par Jean Georges Wille

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Wellcome Collection 42962i

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