Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.
Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.
Wellcome Collection

Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.

Joseph Goupy · 1726

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Romanus sum civis. Caium Mutium vocant. Hostis hostem occidere volui. nec ad mortem minus est animi quam ad coedem fuit. et facere, et pati fortia, Romanum est. T.Liv. Lib.2. Inventio sculptoris pinxit in gratiam Dni. Johannis Taylor &c. de Bifrons in comitatu Cantii. Jos. Goupy Londini fecit

🔒
Order museum-quality prints

Sign in to order prints, canvas, and more of this work. Browsing and full-resolution downloads stay free.

More from Wellcome Collection

An orchid (Otochilus fusca): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Swan, c. 1842, after W. Fitch.
Wellcome Collection
An orchid (Otochilus fusca): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Swan, c. 1842, after W. Fitch.
Walter Hood Fitch
City of Oxford: from the gas works and meadows. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1835, after F. Mackenzie.
Wellcome Collection
City of Oxford: from the gas works and meadows. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1835, after F. Mackenzie.
Frederick Mackenzie
Carolus Linnaeus. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1799, after J. Russell & J. Opie.
Wellcome Collection
Carolus Linnaeus. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1799, after J. Russell & J. Opie.
Unknown artist
Above, an insect, a musk rat, a siren (eel-shaped taile amphibian), and two hawk moths; below, a shark, a sponge, a vertebrate, an owl, a noddy (a tropical sea bird) and a stapelia. Engraving by Heath.
Wellcome Collection
Above, an insect, a musk rat, a siren (eel-shaped taile amphibian), and two hawk moths; below, a shark, a sponge, a vertebrate, an owl, a noddy (a tropical sea bird) and a stapelia. Engraving by Heath.
Unknown artist