Pyramids of Egypt, Magdalena van de Passe, After Maerten de Vos, 1610 - 1638 print Various Egyptian pyramids and obelisks. Men made to slave scoop clay from the river, which is then baked into stones in a burning oven for the buildings. In the foreground, Pharaoh Psammetiches is on a stone block. He looks at an eagle with a sandal in his mouth (a reference to a fable of Aesopus about the relationship between Rhodopis, a young Egyptian woman, and the pharaoh). In the margin a caption in Latin. Print from a series with the seven wonders of the world. Utrecht paper engraving Egyptian pyramids (Wo

Pyramids of Egypt, Magdalena van de Passe, After Maerten de Vos, 1610 - 1638 print Various Egyptian pyramids and obelisks. Men made to slave scoop clay from the river, which is then baked into stones in a burning oven for the buildings. In the foreground, Pharaoh Psammetiches is on a stone block. He looks at an eagle with a sandal in his mouth (a reference to a fable of Aesopus about the relationship between Rhodopis, a young Egyptian woman, and the pharaoh). In the margin a caption in Latin. Print from a series with the seven wonders of the world. Utrecht paper engraving Egyptian pyramids (Wonder of the World). Psammetichus, king of Egypt, and the courtesan Rhodopis; Cupid assists her in putting on her sandal (while she was bathing one day an eagle carried away one of her sandals and dropped it near Pharaoh, who started to look for its owner). the courtesan Rhodopis - love-affairs of person from classical history. slavery; serfs and the enslaved

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