Caligula Crossing the Bay of Baiae (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Roger Payne
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 11" x 7" (290mm x 190mm)
Date: 1977
Signature: Signed by artist bottom left
Code: PayneTriumphLL

This is the Signed unique original Pen & Ink Wash by Roger Payne.

The Madness of Rome: Gaius Caesar, known to posterity as Caligula (reigned 37-41AD), is depicted riding his horse Incitatus across a 2 mile long pontoon bridge he ordered constructed across the Bay of Baiae, whilst wearing the breastplate of Alexander the Great.

Caligula did this in response to the prediction of a soothsayer named Thrasyllus of Mendes that he "had no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae".

Wonderful, signed, original illustration from Look and Learn, issue number 796, 16th April 1977.

• Artist Biography
  Roger Payne (born c. 1934; UK)
  Roger Payne is a professional illustrator from the UK. His homoerotic work is well known amongst aficionados but he has also done many illustrations for books and magazines, including historical illustrations for Look and Learn.