Author: Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets, Rome] MAUSOLEUM... Views of Rome [Set title] (Graftombe van Augustus), published 1705, 1 p.
Description: 45th 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':'45. Sepulcrum Augusti', view on the reconstruction of the tomb of Augustus.Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'MAUSOLEUM... / PET. Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:'Graftombe van Augustus - Rome - Schenk Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 167 x 194 mm; total: 192 x 255 mm; state I/2; some dirt along the external margins; Hollstein 1497-1596; Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313.

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