Name: Antique Print-CIVILIS-ROMAN ARMY-BATTLE-RHINE-XANTEN-Mulder-Tacitus-Hooft-1704
SKU: PCO-12302
Price: 125.00 EUR
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Antique Print-CIVILIS-ROMAN ARMY-BATTLE-RHINE-XANTEN-Mulder-Tacitus-Hooft-1704

€125.00

‘CIVILIS LAAT DE VROUWEN EN KINDEREN BY DEN STRYDT STAAN, EN OVERWINT DE ROMAINEN BY ‘T LEGER VETERA.’

– Original antique print showing an ancient battle scene: Women and children watch as Claudius Civilis defeats the Romans at Vetera (present day Xanten, Lower Rhine) (Revolt of the Batavi, 69-70 ad).

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SKU: PCO-12302 Category: History Tag: History

Description

Medium: Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 37 x 31.5 cm (14.57 x 12.4 inch). Image size: 32 x 21.5 cm. (12.6 x 8.46 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Original middle fold as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

CIVILIS-ROMAN ARMY-BATTLE-RHINE-GERMANY-XANTEN | MISC-BOX-01

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This plate originate from a 1704 Dutch ed. of the works of Tacitus, translated by P.C. Hooft.

Biography engraver: Joseph Mulder (1658, Amsterdam – 1742, Amsterdam), was a renowned Dutch Golden Age printmaker.

Biography artist: Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581 – 1647) – Knight in the Order of Saint Michael – was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature.