Les Nemesis, Ancient Medals - Montfaucon Engraving - 18th Century
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An 18th-century antique engraving with seven Greek and Roman coins and medallions devoted to the Nemeses: at the center a large medallion of Smyrna with the goddesses and a reclining figure, and below it pieces from Mytilene and other mints. Numbered "LXXIV" at the upper right.
An 18th-century antique engraving with seven Greek and Roman coins and medallions devoted to the Nemeses: at the center a large medallion of Smyrna with the goddesses and a reclining figure, and below it pieces from Mytilene and other mints. Numbered "LXXIV" at the upper right.
From L'Antiquite expliquee et representee en figures by Bernard de Montfaucon, the great archaeological repertory published in Paris from 1719, which fixed the iconography of Antiquity for a century.
Medium: copper engraving
Date: 18th century
Source: L'Antiquite expliquee et representee en figures, by Bernard de Montfaucon, volume I
Dimensions: 8.3 x 13.6 in (21 x 34.5 cm)
Condition: damp stain to the lower part and a few ballpoint pen strokes over the central medallion, visible in the photograph; general toning of the paper
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An 18th-century antique engraving with seven Greek and Roman coins and medallions devoted to the Nemeses: at the center a large medallion of Smyrna with the goddesses and a reclining figure, and below it pieces from Mytilene and other mints. Numbered "LXXIV" at the upper right.