A political candidate bribing a crowd in ancient Rome. The candidate in white toga candida is attended by a nomenclator. Slaves throw circus tickets to a crowd in the Forum. Candidat Romain. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by L. Labrousse, artist of Bordeaux, under the direction of Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his L’antique Rome, ou description historique et pittoresque, Ancient Rome, or historical and picturesque description, Chez Deroy, Paris, 1796.

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