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Rhea Silvia
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Rhea Silvia

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1512 - 1560 · engraving; paper

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

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Rhea, standing naked in a landscape, behind her her two children Romulus and Remus are carried away by a man. In the background in the landscape again the man with the two children, near the river the Tiber, in which he will lay them. Top left a cartouche with a text in Latin.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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Credit lineRhea Silvia. 1512 - 1560. Heinrich Aldegrever. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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