Subject (Name): Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.,

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Creator:: Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774, printmaker
Published / Created:: published Octr. 1st, 1768.
Call Number:: Drawer 769.00.00.83
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Seneca sitting on the right, his feet in a basin of water, supported by two men, gesturing and looking to right towards two young men who take down his last teachings, one kneeling, while four others lean in attentively from the left, two with paper and quills, columns behind and richly dressed men with a soldier gathered among the columns in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from text below image., Coat of arms engraved below image with the motto: Cor unum via una., Dedication below title: From the original picture ... in the collection of The Right Honourable the Earl of Exeter, to whom this plate is dedicated, by His Lordship's most obliged and most humble servant, John Boydell., Text below dedication in lower left: Size of the picture, 8 f. 4 i. by 10 f. 2 i. in length., Plate from: A collection of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England. London: [J. Boydell, 1769], v. 1., and Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 50.
Publisher:: J. Boydell
Subject (Name):: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.,
Subject (Topic):: Suicides, Basins (Containers), Writing materials, Columns, and Soldiers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The death of Seneca [graphic]