Death of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, in 30BC. She holds a poisonous asp at her breast. In agate and dactylotheca from the collection of the art dealer Thomas Moore Slade. Mezzotint copperplate engraving by John Spilsbury from his Collection of Fifty Prints from Antique Gems, John Boydell, London, 1785.

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