Plato meditating on immortality before socrates, the butterfly, skull and poppy, about 400bc. Illustration for the graphic, 3 february 1894, and earlier, read the notes. A detail from within within an advert for eno's fruit salts. Reference. Signed with a monogram and dated cvv [with a crane] / 84 in grey ink at the lower right. 19th century engraving (first appeared in 1884. It is found in some illustrated newspapers with the title "plato meditating before socrates, the butterfly, skull, and poppy" or "plato meditating on immortality before socrates". This one particularly is of from "the graphic", volume 40, 1889, with the caption under it: "(the portrait of plato is copied from an exquisite gem of high antiquity in the british museum)". It may be truly based on an intaglio from a gem originally depicting plato looking at a butterfly over a skull, as cited in eschenburg (1839) https://www. Google. Com. Br/books/edition/manual_of_classical_literature/ru0zaaaayaaj?hl=pt-br&gbpv=1&dq=%22plato+meditating%22+%22gem%22&pg=pa113. Date: 3 February 1894.
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