Junia, beloved of Britannicus, granddaughter of Augustus, character in Jean Racine's tragedy Britannicus, 1669. Young woman in gold mantle over a crimson robe, standing in a room with water ewer and stool, statues in alcoves. Junie. Hand-coloured copperplate engraving by Pierre-Michel Alix after an illustration by Philippe Chéry from Jean-Charles Le Vacher de Charnois’s Recherches sur les Costumes et sur les Theatres de Toutes les Nations, M. Drouhin, Paris, 1790.

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