PONS AELIUS, CASTRUM … Views of Rome [Set title]

Beschrijving

52nd 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’:’52. . … Castel-/lum S. Angeli’, view on the Tiberis overlooking the S. Angelo bridge and in the background St Peter. Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:’PONS AELIUS, CASTRUM … / P Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:’