Terentius sits beside a table writing on one of his plays. In the foreground are a theater mask and five text scrolls containing the works of other great Roman and Greek writers: Menander, Plautus, Ennius, Diphilus and Apollodorus. A youth is seated in the foreground left, holding a text scroll with the name of the Roman poet Naevius on it. In the background a pegasus., Title page for Comedia for Terentius Comoediae (title on object), print maker: Ernst Ludwig Creite, (mentioned on object), after: Julius Caesar Boëtius, (mentioned on object), publisher: Isaac van der Kloot, print maker: The

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