AMPHITHEATRI VESPASIANORUM. Views of Rome [Set title]

Second plate of 100 portraying Rome's palaces and ruins and even reconstruction of ancient buildings in Rome. The second state of these etchings were collected in the publication by Peter Schenck:'Roma aeterna, sive ipsius aedificiorum Romanorum, integrorium collapsorumque, conspectus duplex. ' In the 'Aedificiorum Index':'2. Amphitheatrum Vespasianorum': view on the Colosseum's ruins with some figures in the foreground. Ispired to are inspired to Etienne Duperac's plate 16 of 'I Vestigi dell' antichità di Roma.' (1575). Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'AMPHITHEATRI VESPASIANORUM. / Pet Schenck exc: Amsteloed: cum Privil:' l Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 167 x 197 mm; total: 190 x 240 mm; state I/2; some dirt along the external margins; Hollstein 1497-1596; Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313.