VILLA Pontificis URBANI OCTAVI… Views of Rome [Set title]

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99th 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’:’99. Villa Gandolphina’, view papal residency of Castel Gandolfo on the Albano Lake. The pope is walking along the lakeshore in the center with his guards. Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:’VILLA Pontificis URBANI OCTAVI… / P Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:’