SPIESS, AUGUST,

The Death of General Wolfe

After the famous painting by Benjamin West, depicting the 1759 Battle of Quebec, where General James Wolfe died at the moment of victory. Steel engraving on wove paper, sheet size 116 x 150 mm., engraved by August Spiess after Benjamin West, and printed and published by G.G. Lange in Darmstadt, c. 1770. August Spiess (1841-1923) was a German (steel) engraver. In good condition, dark stains in the top margin left and right (glue bleeding from the verso from previous mounting), some soiling in the left and right margins.

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Book number: 71611

Catalogue: Death History

Voet, Alexander II (c. 1635-after 1695), Galle, Cornelis II (1615-1678) after Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA.

The death of Seneca. A pupil on the right describes the last words of the Philosopher; two soldiers on the right background. The old man is standing in the center, with his left hand raised and the right arm towards the ground. Some blood is dropping out of his forearm. A bearded man on the left is drying Seneca's skin. The philosopher is standing on a basin. Lettered in lower margin with production details and title: "Petr. Paul Rubbens pinxit" and "[A. Voet iunior sc] Corn. Galle excudit". Text in squared brackets added in brown ink, after reworking of plate. The figure of Seneca is after a Roman statue of an old fisherman 'Vieux pêcheur, dit Sénèque mourant' in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv.no.MR 314. l Engraving on paper, trimmed to plate mark; total: 404 x 275 mm; state II/2; Hollstein 11 (Voet).

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Book number: 63600

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