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This is not a modern print. This engraving is more than 140 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp.     
Extra Information:
Cornelia Africana and her sons Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, draped female figure, seated, with draped young boy standing at left, and nude boy leaning against her at right.
Extra Information:
The story of Cornelia, that "most virtuous matron" as Roman historians designate her, may not be familiar to all. She was the daughter of Scipio Africanus, and wife to Sempronius Gracchus, who died leaving her a widow with twelve children, all of whom she subsequently lost, except a daughter, married to Scipio the younger, and two sons, Tiberius ans Caius, who became so renowned in the annals of Rome for their eloquence and opposition to the authorities of the state in advocating the interests of the people. "These sons," says Plutarch, "Cornelia brought up with so much care, that, though they were indisputably of the noblest family, and had the happiest disposition of all the Roman youth, yet education was allowed to have contributed still more than nature to their perfection." When a lady of Campania made a display of her jeweled ornaments in the house of Cornelia, and entreated the latter to exhibit her own, the Roman matron produced her two surviving sons, saying, "These are the only jewels of which I can boast." During her lifetime a statue was erected to her honor, bearing the inscription,- Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi       

Artist Biography:
 Mathurin Moreau was a French sculptor in the academic style. Moreau was born in Dijon, first exhibited in the 1848 Salon, and finally received a medal of honor from the Salon in 1897. He was made mayor of the 19th arrondissement of Paris, and in 1912 had a street named in his honor.

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