Title page for "Roman Emperors on Horseback"

Adriaen Collaert Netherlandish
After Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish
Publisher Philips Galle Netherlandish

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Title page for the series 'Roman Emperors on Horseback'. Depicted is a personification of the river Tiber with the wolf feeding Romulus and Remus at center and an eagle overhead, Venus in niche at left and Mars at right, a portrait of Johannes Stradanus at bottom center, Troy burning in the background with Aeneas and his father fleeing at left.

Title page for "Roman Emperors on Horseback", Adriaen Collaert (Netherlandish, Antwerp ca. 1560–1618 Antwerp), Engraving; first state of two

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