Seneca preparing his own death with his foot in a bath. Coloured engraving by S.F. Ravenet after R. Earlom after Luca Giordano.

  • Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705.
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Published Oct.r 1 1768
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548180i
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The event described by Tacitus, Annals XV.60-64. Around Seneca, "advocati scriptores" with quill pens and codices or tablets are writing down his final thoughts. A group of people in the background presumably includes the tribune Gavius Silvanus and a centurion accompanying him, who had carried the death sentence to Seneca from the emperor Nero

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[London] : John Boydell, Published Oct.r 1 1768 ([London] : J. Boydell excudit, 1768)

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1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 48.2 x ca. 59.9 cm

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The death of Seneca. From the original picture at Burleigh, painted by Luca Giordano, in the collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Exeter; to whom this plate is dedicated, by his lordship's most obliged and most humble servant, John Boydell. Size of the picture 5f 4i by 10f 2i in length. Luca Giordano pinxt. ; R. Earlom delin.t ; S.F. Ravenet sculpsit Bears number: No. 50

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Wellcome Collection 548180i

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  • uncoloured impression without lettering, identified as the death of Aesculapius, on presentation window mount
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