Livia Drusilla, consort of Augustus Caesar. Line engraving by A. Sadeler, 16--.

Date:
[between 1600 and 1699]
Reference:
730650i
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Description

Half-length portrait, directed to right, head turned towards the left

Publication/Creation

[Venice?] : Marcus Sadeler excud, [between 1600 and 1699]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving ; sheet 35.5 x 27.7 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Livia Drusilla D. Oct. Augusti uxor. II. Imperium placidis aurigabatur habenis Pax, fera cum quaevis natio colla daret. Livia cum charo transmisi laeta marito Tempora, et Augustis inuidiosa dehinc. O felix una ante alias, duplicique beata Sorte viri: bona quod secla tulere bonum. Post vitam finis capit hunc tranquilla quietam. Inter nostra cadens oscula demoritur. Aegidius Sadeler S.C.M. sculp. Marcus Sadeler excudit. Lettering in four elegiac couplets below the portrait

Reference

Wellcome Collection 730650i

Notes

One print in a set of twelve pairs of prints of Roman emperors and empresses

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Where to find it

  • Julius Caesar and Livia Drusilla

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