De vrouw van Hasdrubal pleegt zelfmoord, Bartolomeo Pinelli, 1819

Title(s)

De vrouw van Hasdrubal pleegt zelfmoord
La Moglie di Asdrubale, dopo avere ucciso lisuoi figli, e rimproverato il suo Consorte di viltà nell'essersi reso schiavo di Scipio, si precipita fra le rovine di Cartagine (title on object)
Geschiedenis van het Romeinse Rijk (series title)
Frontespizio della Istoria Romana (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

64/101

Object number

RP-P-1929-230

Catalogue reference

• Marini&Fagiolo 64

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• inscription: ‘De vrouw van Hasdrubal werpt zich temidden der bouwvallen van Carthago, nadat zij hare zonen gedood heeft en haar...’

Description

De vrouw van Hasdrubal heeft zojuist haar kinderen vermoord en staat op het punt om zelfmoord te plegen. Dit uit schaamte voor Hasdrubals' overgave van Carthago aan de Romeinen.

Artist

• print maker: Bartolomeo Pinelli (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Bartolomeo Pinelli (mentioned on object)

Place

Rome

Dating

1819

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 315 mm × width 425 mm

What

• death of Hasdrubal's wife: she throws herself and her two children into the flames of the temple of Aesculapius, which she had set on fire, to show her contempt at her husband's surrender to Scipio

Credit line

• Gift of J.J. de Man, Ede

Acquisition

gift 1929

Copyright

Public domain

• Bartolomeo Pinelli 1781 - 1835 e il suo tempo, Maurizio Marini, Mario Apolloni, Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, p. 303-305, cat.nr. 64