Cleopatra setting fire to the sails of a ship . Etching by F. Chauveau., 1648.

  • Chauveau, François, 1613-1676.
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1648
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42964i
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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 born as a queen, she killed herself, possibly by means of an asp, symbol of divine royalty

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[Paris] : [publisher not identified], 1648.

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 14.6 x 10.1 cm

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Cleopatre partie 3e. Au palais. Avec privilege du roy. 1648. F.C. in. et fe

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Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome II, Paris 1951, p. 434, under no. 370 ("370. Front, pour: La Calprenéde (Gautier de Coste de). Cléopatre. — Paris, 1647 et suiv.")

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Wellcome Collection 42964i

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