Author: Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets, Roma] TEMPLUM ANTONINI imp. FAUSTINAE que coniugis ... Views of Rome [Set title] (Tempel van Antoninus en Faustina), published 1705, 1 p.
Description: 59th 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':'59. Templum Antonini', view on the reconstructed temple of Antoninus and Faustina. Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'TEMPLUM ANTONINI imp. FAUSTINAE que coniugis... / P Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:' Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 167 x 199 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