print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: Bb,13.155
Description: Ten roundels with bust-length portraits of Roman Emperors, with Augustus on the top flanked by plants and fruits, and three rows of three roundels, each with the sitter's name on a small tablet below the image; illustration to Weigel's 'Sculptura historiarum et temporum memoratrix' (1679). Etching
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Production date: 1679 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Germany
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Dimensions: Height: 178 millimetres; Width: 102 millimetres
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Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Augustus (Octavian); Portrait of: Antoninus Pius; Portrait of: Philip I; Portrait of: Julian (the Apostate); Portrait of: Attila the Hun; Portrait of: Justinian I; Portrait of: Phocas; Portrait of: Leo III, Byzantine Emperor; Portrait of: Otho; Portrait of: Emperor Charlemagne (?); Illustration to: Christoph Weigel
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Acquisition date: 1818
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Bb,13.155

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