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Antique Print-DOMITIA-LONGINA-ROMAN-EMPIRE-PORTRAIT-Mariette-Sadeler-c.1700

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€150.00

‘DOMITIA LONGINA DOMITIANI VXOR. / XII / DOMITIA ESPOUSA DOMITIAN ERERE DE TITUS, AU TEMPS DE SON SECOND CONSULAT ET EURENT UN FILS DE LEUR / MARIAGE. MAIS ESTANT PARUENU A L’EMPIRE, IL LA REPUDIA ENCORE QUIL L’EUT HONOREE DU NOM D’AUGUSTA. / TOUTEFOIS EXCESSIUEMENT EPRIS DE SON AMOUR IL LA RAPELLA, BIEN QUE LA FILLE DE TITUS SON FRERE LUY / FUT PRESENTEE POUR FEMME, IL NE POUUOIT VIURE SANS DOMITIA, ET NE LAISSA PAS D’AYMER CETTE NIEPCE / COMME SA CONCUBINE, IL FUT ENFIN CAUSE DE SA MORT, CAR IL FIT AUORTER SON FRUIT. SUET AND DOMIT. INSCRIPTIONS AND TEXTUAL ELEMENTS: MARIETTE EXCUDIT. ‘

– Portrait of Domitia Longina, in elaborate Roman dress and hairstyle, facing right. Richly ornamented jewelry and drapery. Includes a narrative in French describing her marriage and tragic death.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 23.3 x 33.7 cm (9.17 x 13.27 inch). Image size: 19 x 27.6 cm. (7.48 x 10.87 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Full margins, light toning, faint fold in top margin, strong clean impression. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

DOMITIA LONGINA, DOMITIAN, ROMAN EMPRESS, PIERRE MARIETTE, SADELER, ANTIQUE PORTRAIT, JULIO-CLAUDIAN WOMEN | PCO-E22-21

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Part of a Roman empresses portrait series; print published by Pierre Mariette (c.1700), a Parisian printseller and publisher of classical and historical subjects.

Biography engraver: Anonymous engraver.

Biography artist: Aegidius Sadeler (c. 1570?1629), Flemish engraver of the late Renaissance, known for court portraiture and historical engravings.

Additional information

Dimensions 33 × 23 × 1 cm

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