File:Cleopatra VII, steel engraving of the encaustic painting found at Hadrian's Villa in 1818.jpg

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Steel engraving depicting Augustus' now lost painting of the death of Cleopatra VII in encaustic, which was discovered at Emperor Hadrian's Villa (near Tivoli, Italy) in 1818.

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Artist
John Sartain  (1808–1897)  wikidata:Q3182429
 
John Sartain
Alternative names
J. Sartain
Description American engraver
engraver, portrait and miniature painter
Date of birth/death 24 October 1808 Edit this at Wikidata 25 October 1897 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London, England Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Work location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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artist QS:P170,Q3182429
Description
English: Engraving depicting Caesar Augustus' now lost painting of Cleopatra VII in encaustic, which was discovered at Emperor Hadrian's Villa (near Tivoli, Italy) in 1818. She is seen here wearing the golden radiant crown of the Ptolemaic rulers (Sartain, 1885, pp. 41, 44) and being bitten by an asp in an act of suicide. She also wears the knot of Isis (i.e. tyet) around her neck, which corresponds to Plutarch's description of her wearing the robes of the Egyptian goddess Isis (Plutarch's Lives, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1920, p. 9.)
Date 1885
date QS:P571,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium steel engraving print
Source/Photographer On the Antique Painting in Encaustic of Cleopatra: Discovered in 1818. Philadelphia: George Gebbie & Co.

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