Cleopatra, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1574 - 1637 print Cleopatra commits suicide and keeps the snake on her bare chest. In the foreground there is a chained monkey that smells on a flower. In the middle of a motto in Latin that refers to Cleopatra's immoral act. In the margin a two -way caption in Latin. paper engraving death of Cleopatra: she commits suicide by holding to her breast an asp, which she has taken from a basket of figs

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