Author: Unknown engraver, Schenck, Pieter (1660-1713)
Title: CAPITOLIUM... Views of Rome [Set title]
Description: Seventeenth 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':'17. Capitolium', view on the Capitoline Hill from the side with the Palazzo Senatorio on the left. Personnages on the square. Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'CAPITOLIUM novum, Veneranda Anquitatis... / P Schenck exc: Amsteloed: cum Privil:' l Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 167 x 198 mm; total: 191 x 242 mm; state I/2; some dirt along the external margins; Hollstein 1497-1596; Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313

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