English: C. Iulius Caesar (Four Illustrious Rulers of Antiquity).
Čeština: Julius Caesar.
Description
English: Plate 4: Julius Caesar. Caesar, in armour and with a laurel wreath, on horseback, bearing a standard depicting an eagle; the horse trampling three kings with standards depicting a lion, a ram and a goat; a city in the background to left and the sea to right; a ferocious sea-creature to right rises from the sea towards Caesar; after Maarten de Vos. The engraving illustrates the Book of Daniel, chapter 7 and 8.
Čeština: Deska 4: Julius Caesar. Caesar ve zbroji s vavřínovým věncem sedící na koni a nesoucí standartu s vyobrazením orla. Kůň dupe po třech králech se standartami zobrazující lva, berana a kozu. V pozadí je zleva město a zprava moře s nestvůrou.
Date
between 1575 and 1618
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1575-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1618-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Lettered with "C. Julius Caesar.", and "M. de Vos invent. / Ad. Coll. sculp. et excud." within image, and with Latin verse ("Magne animo et virtute... esse facis.") below.
Source/Photographer
The British Museum
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