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[Socrates] standing before seated group in temple portico; large crowd behind him, 1750 — antique engraving
[Socrates] standing before seated group in temple portico; large crowd behind him, 1750. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Socrates is the figure standing before a seated group in a temple portico, with a large crowd gathered behind him, in this 1750 engraving by L.P. Boitard. It was made as an illustration for Cooper's *The Life of Socrates*, published in London that same year, and it appears on page 115 of that book. Boitard, a French-born engraver who worked in London, produced many plates for eighteenth-century English books, so this image reflects the period's taste for classical subjects drawn from ancient philosophy. The crowd and the architectural setting suggest the public, teaching-in-the-open life for which Socrates was known in Athens.

Created / published1750
Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesEngraving by L.P. Boitard. Illus. in: Cooper, The Life of Socrates, London, 1750, p. 115. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,069 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108398

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