The Council Meeting (from Robert Stapylton, Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal, 1660)
Not on view
Thirteen men, including an emperor sitting on a throne beneath a canopy, are seated at a round table, on which lies a giant fish; a man kneels in the foreground, hands over a smaller fish to a Black man; at right a tower can be seen outside the window beyond the ballustrade; illusttrates Robert Stapylton, 'Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs,' by Juvenal.