Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt - stock illustration

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, in profile. Cleopatra VII Philopator was a pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt. She came from a Macedonian Greek family and is known for her beauty and her putative dramatic death, in which she supposedly killed herself using an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her on the breast. From a bound volume of “Chatterbox”, edited by J Erskine Clarke and published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, London. Copies of a children’s weekly magazine dated from 20 November 1886 to 5 November 1887.