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Iusticia (Justice)
Artist
Production date
1559
Collection
Object number
S II 707, folio c
Material
Pen and grey-brown ink, contours incised
Inscription
Signed at lower left: 1559 BRUEGEL; inscribed at lower centre: IUSTICIA; in the margin in sepia ink by a different hand: Scopus legis est aut ut eum quem punit emendet aut poena eius caeteros meliores reddet aut sublatis malis ceteri/ securiores vivant · [The aim of law is either to correct him who is punished, or to improve the others by his example, or to provide that the population live more securely by removing wrongdoers]
Dimensions
29.5 cm x 22.4 cm
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