[Cleopatra with the asp] [graphic]

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Title: [Cleopatra with the asp] [graphic]
Alternative Title: To Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, this plate is humbly inscribed by Her Royal Highness's much obliged and most obedient humble servant, Robt. Strange
Creator: Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721-1792, printmaker
Contributor: Reni, Guido, 1575-1642, artist.
Published / Created: 1753.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by the author next door to Parliament Street Coffee-house, Westminster, London, according to Act of Parliamt
Description: Title assigned by cataloger based on title of original painting.
Three lines of Latin verse below image: Ausa & jacentem visere regiam vultu sereno fortis, & asperas tractare serpentes-- Hor.
Dedication etched in lower margin: To Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales this plate is humbly inscribed by ... Robt. Strange.
Text below dedication: From the original painting of Guido Rheni in [the] collection of Her Royal Highness the P.D. of Wales.
Watermark.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 41.6 x 31 cm, on sheet 46 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Reproductions
Engravings England London 1753
Etchings England London 1753
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Egypt.
Subject (Name): Cleopatra, Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania, 40 B.C.-
Subject (Topic): Queens
Snakes
Subjects: Cleopatra, Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania, 40 B.C.-
Queens > Egypt
Snakes
England > London > 1753

Access: Public
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