Author: Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets, Rome] MONUMENTUM duelli inter HORATIOS et CURIATIOS ... Views of Rome [Set title] (De tumuli van Horatii en Curiatii), published 1705.
Description: 53rd 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':'53. Sepulcrum Horatiorum', view on the remainings of some tombs supposed to be of the Horatii and Curiatii.Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'MONUMENTUM duelli inter HORATIOS et CURIATIOS ... / P Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:'This plate presents a somewhat blurry effect in correspondence with the small towers in the background. This is possibly due to a mechanical problem in the process of printing.De tumuli van Horatii en Curiatii - Rome - Schenk - Begraafplaats der Horatien en Kuriatien Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 167 x 201 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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