Dood van Cleopatra met slang bij een vijgenboom, Barthel Beham, 1524

Title(s)

Dood van Cleopatra met slang bij een vijgenboom
Cleopatra (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-4191

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 12-6(6)
• Pauli (Barthel Beham) 23-6(6)
• Hollstein German 23

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Artist

• print maker: Barthel Beham
• after own design by: Barthel Beham

Place

Neurenberg

Dating

1524

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 57 mm × width 40 mm

What

• death of Cleopatra: she commits suicide by holding to her breast an asp, which she has taken from a basket of figs

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Barthel Beham, Gustav Pauli, p. 20, 21, cat.nr. 23