SEPTIZONIUM SEVERI. Views of Rome [Set title]

Unknown engraver, Schenck, Pieter (1660-1713) possibly after Lafreri, Antonio (or Lafrery) (1512-1577)

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58th 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':'58. Sepulcrum, Septizonium Severi', view on the ruins of the so called Septizonium, a building constructed by will of emperor Septimius Severus, completely dismanteled by 1600. For this representation the source might have been a plate from Lafreri's 'Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae' (1574). Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'SEPTIZONIUM SEVERI. / P. Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:' l Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 167 x 198 mm; total: 191 x 254 mm; state I/2; some dirt along the external margins; Hollstein 1497-1596; Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313.

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