Roman Emperors on Horseback (title page)

Beschrijving

As from Hollstein:’personification of the river Tiber with the wolf feeding Romulus and Remus; in background Troy burning and Aeneas fleeing with his father; at upper center an eagle; in niche at left Venus, at right Mars; at bottom center a medallion with the portrait of Johannes Stradanus’. Signed at the bottom left:’Adrian. Collaert sculp’ at bottom center:’IOANNES STRADAN inuent’. Titled on the scroll above:’IMPERATORUM XIL A SVETONIO…. A PHILIPPO GALLEO.’ Two lines in Latin below:’Vt boni ciuis est… administrare principatum’.