1-152-361 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC), Queen of Egypt, dissolving pearls in wine, 1866. Cleopatra was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, established when Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC. Illustration accompanying Algernon Charles Swinburne's (1837-1909) poem Cleopatra published in The Cornhill Magazine. (London 1866).