The Justice of Trajan

An engraving showing a kneeling woman in a long gown, hands clasped, before a mounted armored rider on a horse at right, with pikemen and soldiers crowding the scene. A Latin inscription in a panel above names Trajan, and a monogram with the date appears low in the plate.

Artist

Hans Sebald Beham

Date

1537

Medium

Engraving on laid paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

967 × 1280 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum