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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1917,1208.1653
Title: Object: La Vertu plaît quoi que vaincue!; Object: Sic virtus et victa placet; Series: Les Batailles d'Alexandre
Description: Landscape with King Porus, wounded, carried before Alexander the Great after the battle of the Hydaspes River; Colbert's coat of arms in lower margin; lettered proof. 1696 Etching with some engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Sébastien Leclerc I; After: Charles Le Brun
School/style: French
Production date: 1696
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 144 millimetres; Width: 279 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1891,1013151.
Bibliographic references: IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (460.III or IV); Jombert 1774 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Sébastien Leclerc, chevalier romain (257.3)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ancient history; battle
Associated names: Associated with: Edouard Colbert, Marquess of Villacerf; Representation of: Alexander the Great; Representation of: Porus
Associated events: Associated Event: Battle of the Hydaspes River 326 BC
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.1653

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