Caption:
Bust of Scipio Africanus, Roman general and statesman, c.235-183 BC. In winged and crested helmet, breastplate with head of Medusa. Surrounded by trophies, anchors, ship rams, weapons, horns, armour, SPQR vexillum, signa, military standards, war machinery, etc. Lucu. Scipionis Statua. Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus. Copperplate engraving by Georg Christoph Eimmart from Joachim von Sandrarts LAcademia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.