The wife of Hasdrubal the Boetharch, seeing the defeat of Carthage by the Romans, throws herself and her children into a blazing temple in front of distressed onlookers. Engraving by P. Woeiriot.

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The wife of Hasdrubal the Boetharch, seeing the defeat of Carthage by the Romans, throws herself and her children into a blazing temple in front of distressed onlookers. Engraving by P. Woeiriot. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Romae [Rome] : Ph.ls Thomassinus excud

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1 print : engraving ; image 21 x 17.2 cm

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Nil timet ingentes flammas generosa subire Asdrubalis coniux, ne hoste subacta foret. Corporis haud timor, ast animi praestantia duxit, Et matrem et pueros luce carere simul.

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Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du seizième siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes tome II, Paris 1938, p. 166, no. 22 ("La femme d'Asdrubal se jetant avec ses deux enfants dans le bûcher. Signée, avant 1562. H. 0m 224 — L. 0m 172. 2 états : Le Ier : Celui décrit. …IIe état (et non copie) sans le nom de Woeriot et avec l'adresse de Thomassin (réduite légèrement en bas). … Robert-Dumesnil, VII, 206 et suppl.; Courboin, 11429")

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Wellcome Collection 42981i

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According to various online catalogues, after a design by Baldasse Peruzzi

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