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Plate 30: four busts of Nero, with three sets of coins of his wives, Octavia, Poppaea, and Messalina, from 'Emperors, Caesars, dictators, their spouses, and their families' (Empereurs, Césars, tyrans, leurs épouses et leurs familles)

Paolo Toschi Italian
After Claude Bourguignon French
1817
Not on view

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  • Title: Plate 30: four busts of Nero, with three sets of coins of his wives, Octavia, Poppaea, and Messalina, from 'Emperors, Caesars, dictators, their spouses, and their families' (Empereurs, Césars, tyrans, leurs épouses et leurs familles)
  • Series/Portfolio: 'Emperors, Caesars, dictators, their spouses, and their families' (Empereurs, Césars, tyrans, leurs épouses et leurs familles)
  • Artist: Paolo Toschi (Italian, Parma 1788–1854 Parma)
  • Artist: After Claude Bourguignon (French, died 1855)
  • Date: 1817
  • Medium: Engraving
  • Dimensions: Plate: 19 5/16 × 12 13/16 in. (49.1 × 32.6 cm)
    Sheet: 22 11/16 × 15 1/2 in. (57.6 × 39.3 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941
  • Object Number: 41.97.472
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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