Allegorical scene with History seated on a cloud above Study with a history book, medallion with portraits, a globe and chart. Two winged genie write the History of Remus and Romulus. Copperplate title page with round vignette by Jean Baptiste Piauger 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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