Vespasianus

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Date

1593/94

Material(s)/Technique

Kupferstich

Dimensions

348 x 248 mm

Inscriptions

oben: D. TITVS VERSPASIAN[VS]

unten: XI./Laudatae soboles stirpis laudiator ipse,/O Tite, virtutum clara propago Patris./Delitiae, quo tum viuebas , at[que] amor, aeui/Vne voluntates surripuisse sagax.//Vsurpet sine laude quis o tam nobile nomen./Tempora iam quod ad haec obsolet ista minus./Peridit, heu, subito quod non te numen amicum./Si Tibi res fuerat perdere acerba diem/Ægidius Sadeler S.C.M. sculp.-Titianus inuentor-Marcus Sadeler excud.

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Hollstein Dutch & Flemish, Bd. XXI, Nr. 346-370

External resources

British Museum: 1878,0713.2653