Painting depicting Socrates in prison, Rome (or Athens?), [s.d.]

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Photograph of a painting depicting Socrates in prison, Rome (or Athens?), [s.d.]. Socrates is pictured at center surrounded by adorers, wearing the only lightly-colored toga in the image. He holds the bowl of hemlock in his right hand while he puts his left on the head of a kneeling disciple whose hands are clasped in pleading. A woman and child are pictured farther to the right. One of two stools is overturned to the left, where two other mourners weep at the couch. The brick walls of the prison are evident in the background.

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Title Painting depicting Socrates in prison, Rome (or Athens?), [s.d.]

Subject Art (lcsh), Art -- Greek (file heading), Men (lcsh), Socrates (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18005

Identifier 7770 (accession number), CHS-7770 (call number), CHS-7770 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18039 (legacy record id), chs-m18005 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14104 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18039

Unique identifier UC113670

Legacy Identifier CHS-7770.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.7 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
42.5 cm × 33.1 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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