File:Edmonia Lewis - The death of Cleopatra.jpg

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English: "Cleopatra (69 - 30 BCE), the legendary queen of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE, is often best known for her dramatic suicide, allegedly from the fatal bite of a poisonous snake....the piece was first exhibited to great acclaim at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 and critics raved that it was the most impressive American sculpture in the show. Not long after its debut, however, Death of Cleopatra was presumed lost for almost a century—appearing at a Chicago saloon, marking a horse’s grave at a suburban racetrack, and eventually reappearing at a salvage yard in the 1980s." http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=33878
Date carved 1876
Source Smithsonian American Art Museum
Author Edmonia Lewis (July 1845 - 17 September 1907)

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