Author: Unknown engraver, Schenck, Pieter (1660-1713)
Title: COLUMNA marmorea ... Views of Rome [Set title]
Description: 21st 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':'21. Columna Trajana', view on theTrajan's Column a Roman triumphal column that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'COLUMNA marmorea... / P Schenck exc: Amsteloed: cum Privil:' l Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 198 x 167 mm; total: 255 x 190 mm; state I/2; some dirt along the external margins; Hollstein 1497-1596; Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313

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