Tullia, the last Queen of Rome, orders her charioteer to drive over the corpse of her assassinated father King Servius Tullius, 535 BC. Tullie veut forcer le conducteur de son chariot a passer sur le cadavre de son pere. Copperplate engraving by Quirin Mark after a design by Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen 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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