Author: Unknown engraver, Schenck, Pieter (1660-1713)
Title: PANTHEON; hodie D. VIRGINIS SS. que MARTYRUM... Views of Rome [Set title]
Description: 68th 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':'68. Templum, pantheon', lateral view of the Pantheon as it looked in the seventeenth century with Bernini's insertion of the two bell towers (removed in 1883). Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'PANTHEON; hodie D. VIRGINIS SS. que MARTYRUM... / P Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:' l Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 166 x 200 mm; total: 190 x 254 mm; state I/2; some dirt along the external margins; Hollstein 1497-1596; Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313

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