Failed suicide on altar Olimpia (title on object), View of an altar where a woman wants to stab herself with a knife. A rushed priest intervenes. Figures walk around the altar, two women kneel by a sacrificial column. This print was made for Voltaire's tragedy 'Olimpia', tragedy, self-sacrifice, death in the service of a higher purpose - EE - death not certain, wounded person, Simon Fokke (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1764 - 1782, paper, etching, h 137 mm × w 90 mm
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