Stoicism: above, the suicide of Seneca; middle, Zeno and Chrysippus; below, the suicides of Socrates and Cato. Engraving by W. Hole, ca. 1614.
- Hole, William, -1624.
- Date:
- [1614?]
- Reference:
- 568192i
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Bottom left, Socrates drinks the hemlock. Bottom right, Cato the younger falls on his sword
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London : Printed by William Stansby, [1614?]
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1 print : engraving ; image and text 25.7 x 16.2 cm
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The workes both morrall and natural of Lucius Annaeus Seneca translated by D. Lodge d. of phys. ... Ingr. by W. Hole.
Top, Seneca says "Iovi liberatori" (to Jupiter the liberator) as he prepares his own death in a tub marked "Morientis effigies" (portrait of the dying man)
References note
A.M. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, Cambridge 1952-1964, part 3. The reign of Charles I, p. 334, no. 31
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Wellcome Collection 568192i
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