Romulus and Remus and the foundation of Rome. A priest points to the gods Jupiter and Venus in the clouds above the twins and their parents Faustulus and Acca Larentia. Fondation de Rome. Copperplate engraving by Joseph Stöber after a design by Hubert-François Gravelot from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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