print
- Museum number
- 1862,0712.488
- Title
- Series: The Story of Romulus and Remus
- Description
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Plate 23, Romulus appoints the Centurions and establishes discipline, from a series of 27 prints relating the story of Romulus and Remus. 1573-75
Etching
- Production date
- 1573-1575
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres
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Width: 178 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The number '32' is a mistake and should read '23'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1862
- Acquisition notes
- Almost certainly part of the group of '186 various prints' at the global price of £59 4s which had been 'selected from Dr Wellesley's sale' (ie the sale of Henry Wellesley's Italian prints on 29 June 1858 and 2 June 1860). This would cover all the Italian acquisitions in the range 1862,0712.439 to 607.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1862,0712.488