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Title Print for the Print Series The Roman Heroes
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Title Print for the Print Series The Roman Heroes

Hendrick Goltzius · 1586 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

The goddess Rome ('Roma'), seated on a seat of weapons on a pedestal, in her left hand a statuette of the goddess of victory. At the pedestal stand a woman with an ox (Europe), a woman with a lion (Asia) and a woman with a crocodile (Africa). In the foreground lies the river god of the Tiber and the she-wolf that suckles Romulus and Remus. Below the scene two couplets of eight lines of verse in Latin. Title print for a series of ten prints, consisting of an unnumbered title print, eight numbered scenes of heroes and an unnumbered closing print.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineTitelprent voor prentserie De Romeinse helden. 1586. Hendrick Goltzius. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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