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Title: The Death of Seneca, after being sentenced to suicide by Nero, bleeding to death into a basin at center, while scribes to both sides transcribe his last words
Artist:
Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder (French, Paris 1706–1774 London)
Artist:
Intermediary draftsman Richard Earlom (British, London 1743–1822 London)
Artist:
After Luca Giordano (Italian, Naples 1634–1705 Naples)
Publisher:
John Boydell (British, Dorrington, Shropshire 1720–1804 London)
Date: 1768
Medium: Engraving; second state of two
Dimensions:
Plate: 19 × 23 7/8 in. (48.3 × 60.7 cm)
Sheet: 19 1/2 × 24 3/8 in. (49.5 × 61.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of George S. Hellman, 1942
Object Number: 42.65.117
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