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Frontispiece Design from Corpus Inscriptionum
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A weeping Minerva is depicted here near a dilapidated statue of the city of Rome, surrounded by all manner of ancient remains. The drawing is the design for the title page from a collection of Roman inscriptions compiled by J. Gruter and published in 1707. The engraving was used once again in 1726, with a different text, as the frontispiece for a survey of the monuments of ancient Rome.
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Credit lineFrontispiece Design from Corpus Inscriptionum. c. 1707. Jan Goeree. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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