Roman consul Lucius Junius Brutus watching the torture and execution of his sons Titus Junius and Tiberius Junius and other monarchists for treason, 509 BC. Le consul Junius Brutus juge en presence du Peuple, ses deux fils et les fait mettre a mort. Copperplate engraving by János Blaschke 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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