Allegorical figure of the Roman Empire, with the Capitoline Wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, and Saturn. Roma altrix Imperii. Qua nihil in terris complectitur altius aether. Fundata anno ante Christium DCCLIII victura cum saeculis. Copperplate engraving from Abraham Bogaert’s De Roomsche Monarchy, The Roman Monarchy, Francois Salma, Utrecht, 1697.

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