Dutch oven tiles from the 17th century showing a woman playing a cello, and a naked woman pressing a dagger to her breast (the suicide of Lucretia). Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by W, and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.

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