The angel of death striking a door during the plague of Rome. Engraving by J.G. Levasseur after J. Delaunay.

  • Delaunay, Jules-Elie, 1828-1891.
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[1894],
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10134i
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The angel of death striking a door during the plague of Rome. Engraving by J.G. Levasseur after J. Delaunay. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In the left background, the steps leading up to the church of S. Maria Aracoeli. To right, a shrine to Aesculapius with a statue and inscription "AESCVLAP[IO] SERVATO[RI]"

Publication/Creation

[Paris?] : Société Franc̦aise de Gravure, [1894], ([Paris] : Imp. Chardon-Wittmann)

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 33.2 x 44.9 cm

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Elie Delaunay pinxt. ; Levasseur sculpt.

References note

Jacques Lethève and Françoise Gardey, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome XIV, Paris 1967, p. 232. Jule-Gabriel Levasseur no. 70 ("Une pl[anche] pour la Société française de gravure, pl. XXXII, 1894 : La peste à Rome, d'apr. Elie Delaunay. Deux épr[euves] dont 1 avant l[ettres]" )

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Wellcome Collection 10134i

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