Author: Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets, Rome] ARCUS, Divo MARC. ANTONINO... Views of Rome [Set title] (Boog van Portugal, Portugallo), published 1705, 1 p.
Description: Seventh 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':'7. Arcus Portogallo', view on the so called 'Portugal Arch' also known as 'Arcus de Trofoli' or 'de Tripolis' or 'Arcus triumphalis'. It waas situated on the via Lata (today Corso). It was named after the residency of the ambassador of Portugal, Palazzo Fiano, overlooking the arch.Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'ARCUS, Divo MARC. ANTONINO... / Pet Schenck exc: Amsteloed: cum Privil:'Boog van Portugal - Via del Corso - Rome - Schenk Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 165 x 198 mm; total: 191 x 256 mm; state I/2; some dirt along the external margins; Hollstein 1497-1596; Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313.

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