Roman Emperor Aulus Vitellius dragged to the Gemonian stairs, struck down by Vespasian's supporters and thrown into the Tiber, 69 AD. Temples and buildings on fire in the background. Vittelius couvert d'approbre est conduit au supplice. Copperplate engraving by Martin Pöltzel after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin 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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