The Continence of Scipio
date: label: date made
content: 1784
name: label: original artist
content: Poussin, Nicolas
label: publisher
content: Boydell, John
label: engraver
content: Legat, Francis
notes: label: Description
content: Engraving after painting by Nicolas Poussin once in the Gallery at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. Marsh probably wrote the numeral 52 in pencil in the lower left margin.
label: Description
content: In the scene depicted, the Roman general Scipio returns to her fiancé a young woman captured in combat. The title is sometimes rendered as "Scipio's Noble Deed," and the subject was popular in art and literature.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Roman history
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Marsh Collection
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Marsh Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0534.03.54
label: accession number
content: 1978.0534
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0534.03.54
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: engraving
label: Object Type
content: Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 48.5 cm x 60.5 cm; 19 3/32 in x 23 13/16 in