Author: Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets, Rome] TEMPLUM D. PETRI... Views of Rome [Set title] (Sint-Pieters basiliek), published 1705, 1 p.
Description: 76th 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':'76. Templum S. Petri', view on the St. Peter's complex with the basilica on he left and the fortess building on the right, today the Musei Vaticani.Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'TEMPLUM D. PETRI... / P Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:'Sint-Pietersbasiliek - Rome - Schenk  Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 168 x 196 mm; total: 190 x 253 mm; state I/2; Hollstein 1497-1596;Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313.

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