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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 Roma ('Roma'), seated on a seat of weapons on a pedestal, in her left hand a statuette of the goddess of victory. At the base of 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 suckling Romulus and Remus. Below the image two stanzas of eight lines of Latin verse. Title print for a series of ten prints, consisting of an unnumbered title print, eight numbered depictions of heroes, and an unnumbered concluding print.

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

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