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Cleopatra

Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE

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  • The death of Cleopatra. Etching by or after A. Hirschvogel, 1547.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is shown lying on her bed grasping the tail of the asp with her left hand. Line engraving by R. Strange after a painting by Guido Reni, 1753.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is standing next to her bed grasping the tail of the asp with her right hand. Line engraving by G. Rivera after F. Pieraccini after a painting by Guido Reni.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: the asp is wriggling up the left arm of the sleeping Cleopatra. Etching by J.B. de Poilly after a statue in the Vatican.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is shown seated on a chair with the asp wriggling up her left arm while her maid shields her face in a gesture of horror and grief. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 175-, after C. Netscher.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is sitting on a chair while the asp wriggles up her right arm. Stipple engraving by Clark after himself.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: the asp wriggles around Cleopatra's left arm and is about to bite her in the breast. Heliogravure after S. Beham.
  • Death and three fates on an ox-drawn carriage; historical figures die on the ground beneath; representing the triumph of death. Engraving by S. Pomarede, 1748, after G. Buti after  Bonifacio de' Pitati.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra holding the asp in her left hand. Stipple engraving by Sherwin after G.B. Cipriani.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Roman soldiers discover Cleopatra lying dead on her bed with the asp wriggling on her left arm and her dead maid lying next to the bed. Line engraving by E. Smith after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.

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    Priapeia, sive diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus / illustrati commentariis Gasperis Schoppii, Franci. L. Apuleii Madaurensis Anezomenos, ab eodem illustratus ... Ut et Heraclii Imperatoris, Sophoclis, Sophistae, C. Antonii, Q. Sorani, et Cleopatrae Reginae, epistolae, de propudiosa Cleopatrae Reginae libidine. Huic editioni accedunt Josephi Scaligeri in Priapeia commentarii, ac Friderici Linden-bruch in eadem notae.

    | Date: 1664

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