AQUAE MARCIAE CASTELLUM… Views of Rome [Set title]

Beschrijving

Sixth 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’:’6. Aqua Marcia’: view on a portion of the so called Aqua Marcia, the longest of the 11 aqueducts that supplied the city of ancient Rome. Inspired to Etienne Duperac’s plate 27 of ‘I Vestigi dell’ antichità di Roma…’ (1575). Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:’AQUAE MARCIAE CASTELLUM… / P.Schenck exc: Amsteloed: cum Privil:’