1-630-198 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sergius Orata and other Romans, 1473-1480. Sergius Orata pointing to the hanging baths (balneae pensiles) invented by him; Sergius Orata inspecting his artificial preserves for sea-fish; the profligate son of Aesop the tragedian feasting on priceless singing-birds; the Roman women pleading against the lex Oppia, enacted to restrain feminine luxury. From Les faits et les dis des romains et de autres gens, produced in Paris. Illustration from Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum, Miniatures, Borders, and Initials by George F Warner, series II, (British Museum, London, 1899).