| Description | Etching with drypoint , possibly inspired by Diogenes Laertius, Book III. Originally etched c.1662.
Image: The Academy of Plato, who is seated in the centre, with his students.
Includes inscription ' In Villa ab Academo attributa sua Plato condit Academiam / Salvator Rosa Inv. Scul.'
This print is from the first state as in later states the ear of the man seated in the foreground was burnished out and covered with strands of hair drawn in drypoint. |