The Roman general Sulla requisitioning goods from citizens.

  • Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536
Date:
[1531]
Reference:
3334565i
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About this work

Description

A general is on horseback to the right as soldiers gamble to the left and others are looting in the background

Publication/Creation

[Augsburg], [1531]

Physical description

1 print : woodcut on paper ; 13.7 x 16 cm

Related material

print published in: Officia M.T.C.. (b31038578)

Lettering

A soldier holding a banner on the left bears the initials 'S.P.Q.R'

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer
Mounted with 3334566i

References note

Dodgson, C. 1903-1911, Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Volume II, page 176, Number 103

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3334565i

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