The Continence of Scipio
The Continence of Scipio
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- Description
- Engraving after painting by Nicolas Poussin once in the Gallery at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. Marsh probably wrote the numeral 52 in pencil in the lower left margin.
- In the scene depicted, the Roman general Scipio returns to her fiancé a young woman captured in combat. The title is sometimes rendered as "Scipio's Noble Deed," and the subject was popular in art and literature.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- engraving
- Object Type
- Engraving
- date made
- 1784
- original artist
- Poussin, Nicolas
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- engraver
- Legat, Francis
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 48.5 cm x 60.5 cm; 19 3/32 in x 23 13/16 in
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.03.54
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.03.54
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- subject
- Roman history
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- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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