Aesculapius, Greek god of medicine, is brought to Rome in the form of a serpent on a galley. Esculape amene a Rome sur une Galere. Copperplate engraving by Martin Pöltzel after a design by Hubert-François Gravelot from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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