# Seleucus and His Son

- By: Wenceslaus Hollar (after Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (Italian, c. 1499-1546))
- Date: 1637
- Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: 28.3 × 37.3 cm (11 3/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
- Culture: Bohemia
- Credit line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109014)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/a895ddd5-b985-efd9-af46-482d32a2c7da/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Wenceslaus Hollar dedicated this etching to his patron Thomas Howard, the 14th Earl of Arundel, and documented much of Howard’s art collection in print. This image depicts the epitome of ancient justice, Seleucus, who offered one of his own eyes to save his adulterous son from losing both. The print reproduces Giulio Romano’s fresco in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua— which supplied the architectural shape of the image. However, it is likely that Hollar used not an original preparatory drawing but a copy that was in Arundel’s collection and is now in the British Museum.

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