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Belisaire assis, les yeux couverts d'un bandeau et tenant son casque pour demandes aumône / Dietriÿ.

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Belisaire assis, les yeux couverts d'un bandeau et tenant son casque pour demandes aumône / Dietriÿ.

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Print shows a blinded Belisarius, Byzantine emperor Justinian's former general, begging for charity after being accused of treason and disgraced.

With annotations by George Perkins Marsh on the verso.
Marsh Collection.
Library of Congress copy is trimmed.
Library of Congress copy is a restrike.
Published in: The first Smithsonian collection : the European engravings of George Perkins Marsh and the role of prints in the U.S. National Museum / Helena E. Wright. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2015. p. 61.

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01/01/1762
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Dietrich, Christian Wilhelm Ernst, 1712-1774, artist
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