Virginius - 1911
Verginia, or Virginia, was the subject of an almost certainly apocryphal story of Ancient Rome, related in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, designed to show the evil character of the decemvir Appius Claudius Crassus, who began to lust after Verginia, a beautiful plebeian girl. When she rejected him, Claudius tried to forcefully claim her, but her father Verginius stabbed and killed her, to assure her freedom. The people supported Verginius and overthrew Claudius, subsequently reestablishing the Roman Republic.
Print dated 1911
Dimensions (Frame): 205mm x 255mm
Verginia, or Virginia, was the subject of an almost certainly apocryphal story of Ancient Rome, related in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, designed to show the evil character of the decemvir Appius Claudius Crassus, who began to lust after Verginia, a beautiful plebeian girl. When she rejected him, Claudius tried to forcefully claim her, but her father Verginius stabbed and killed her, to assure her freedom. The people supported Verginius and overthrew Claudius, subsequently reestablishing the Roman Republic.
Print dated 1911
Dimensions (Frame): 205mm x 255mm
Verginia, or Virginia, was the subject of an almost certainly apocryphal story of Ancient Rome, related in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, designed to show the evil character of the decemvir Appius Claudius Crassus, who began to lust after Verginia, a beautiful plebeian girl. When she rejected him, Claudius tried to forcefully claim her, but her father Verginius stabbed and killed her, to assure her freedom. The people supported Verginius and overthrew Claudius, subsequently reestablishing the Roman Republic.
Print dated 1911
Dimensions (Frame): 205mm x 255mm