Red and White Figure Vase T.XXIII, from “Recueil d’Antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques et romaines”

Anne-Claude-Philippe de Caylus

1752-1767

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In the narrow horizontal scene, a large procession of knights, horses, and camels move from left to right through the landscape accompanying the Queen of Sheba who is being carried on an elaborate palaquin.
Men with shovels and brooms line the street. A single man walks through the middle of the crowd holding a broom over his shoulder.
A skeleton figure rides a horse through a village. He holds a flag in his left hand. Around him are dead bodies and weeping people. In the background stands an army.
Sketch of a nude female. She faces front with her head slightly tilted downward. Her arms are stretched out in different directions.