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The Beheading of the Roman Judge Papinian, Plate 5 from "Thronus Justitiae"

Willem van Swanenburg, Dutch, 1580 - 1612 and Christoffel van Sichem I, Netherlandish, ca. 1546–16241609

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Interior view of a rectangular room. The beheaded body of Paparian lies obliquely in central foreground. Seven men surround it. In mid-distance a door into adjoining room where another man is being killed. Inscribed, lower left: "Stichem excud et editore J. Wtemwael inv. G. Swaneb. sculp."; lower margin: "Fratre trucidato Caracalla..."

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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