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Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, (?), ca. 1669–1703, British, Lucretia Romana, between 1678 and 1717
- Title:
Lucretia Romana
- Date:
- between 1678 and 1717
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 15/16 x 8 3/8 inches (30.4 x 21.2 cm), Plate: 11 1/2 x 7 15/16 inches (29.2 x 20.1 cm), Image: 10 13/16 x 7 3/4 inches (27.5 x 19.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "376"; lower right: "Faithorne?"
Lettered, lower center: "Lucretia Romana"; lower right: "E. Cooper Ex:"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.898
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bed | dagger | death | death of Lucretia: she commits suicide by stabbing herself | drapery | gaze | honor | jewelry | mythology | rape | religious and mythological subject | ring | Roman | shoe | suffering, misfortune of Lucretia | suicide | woman
- Associated People:
- Lucretia (died ca. BC 508)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22589
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