File:Plato with skull, butterfly and Socrates' tomb.png

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Plato meditating on immortality before Socrates, the butterfly, skull and poppy

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Author
Walter Crane  (–1915)  wikidata:Q660917 s:en:Author:Walter Crane
 
Walter Crane
Description British painter, illustrator, drawer and visual artist
Date of birth/death 15 August 1845 / 1848 Edit this at Wikidata 14 March 1915 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Liverpool Horsham
Work period 1859 Edit this at Wikidata–1915 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Liverpool, London
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creator QS:P170,Q660917
Description
English: Plato meditating on immortality before Socrates, the butterfly, skull and poppy, about 400BC. Illustration for The Graphic, 3 February 1894, and earlier, read the notes. A detail from within within an advert for Eno's Fruit Salts. reference.

Signed with a monogram and dated CVV [with a crane] / 84 in grey ink at the lower right.

19th century engraving (first appeared in 1884. It is found in some illustrated newspapers with the title "PLATO MEDITATING BEFORE SOCRATES, THE BUTTERFLY, SKULL, AND POPPY" or "PLATO MEDITATING ON IMMORTALITY BEFORE SOCRATES". This one particularly is of from "The Graphic", volume 40, 1889, with the caption under it: "(the portrait of Plato is copied from an exquisite gem of high antiquity in the British Museum)". It may be truly based on an intaglio from a gem originally depicting Plato looking at a butterfly over a skull, as cited in Eschenburg (1839) https://www.google.com.br/books/edition/Manual_of_Classical_Literature/RU0ZAAAAYAAJ?hl=pt-BR&gbpv=1&dq=%22Plato+meditating%22+%22gem%22&pg=PA113
Date 3 February 1894
date QS:P571,+1894-02-03T00:00:00Z/11
Source/Photographer https://www.google.com.br/books/edition/The_Graphic/MuVEAQAAMAAJ?hl=pt-BR&gbpv=1&dq=%22plato+meditating%22&pg=PA59

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