Author: Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets] SEPTIZONIUM imp. SEVERI... Views of Rome [Set title] (Het Septizonium, een nymphaeum in het oude Rome), published 1705, 1 p.
Description: 57th 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':'57. Sepulcrum, Septizonium Severi', view on the reconstruction of the facade of the so called Septizonium a building constructed by will of emperor Septimius Severus, completely dismanteled by 1600. Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'SEPTIZONIUM imp. SEVERI... / Pet. Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:'Ook bekend als Septizodium. Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 165 x 198 mm; total: 190 x 254 mm; state I/2; some dirt along the external margins; lettering in blue ink iin he sky; on the verso pencil annotation of numbers; Hollstein 1497-1596; Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313.

Keywords: Italy|Rome|Topography & Travel