Author: Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets, Rome] PALATII, annexorumque aedificiorum et ... Views of Rome [Set title] (Keizerlijke paleizen op de Palatijn), published 1705, 1 p.
Description: 37th 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':'37. Palatium Augustorum': view on the ruines of the imperial palaces on the Palatine. Inspired to Etienne Duperac's plate 8 of 'I Vestigi dell' antichità di Roma...' (1575).Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'PALATII, annexorumque aedificiorum et ... / Pet Schenck exc: Amsteloed: cum Privil:'Keizerlijke paleizen op de Palatijn - Huis van Livia - Huis van Augustus - Domus Tiberiana - Rome - Schenk Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 168 x 197 mm; total: 191 x 254 mm; state I/2; some dirt along the external margins; Hollstein 1497-1596; Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313.

Keywords: Italy|Rome|Topography & Travel