Author: Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets] MURUS urbis, inter portas... Views of Rome [Set title] (Gezicht op Rome: De kromme muur Muro Torto, doorgaans geheeten achter de kerk van de H. Maria del Popolo), published 1705.
Description: 34th plate of 100 portraying Rome's palaces and ruins and even reconstruction of ancient buildings in Rome.The second states 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': '34.Murus Obliquus.', view on the section of collapsing walls in Rome.Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch: 'MURUS urbis, inter portas... / Pet Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:'Muro Torto - Piazza del Popolo - Rome - Pieter Schenk Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 165 x 194 mm; total: 187 x 254 mm; state I/2; despite light staining, in very good condition. Hollstein 1497-1596.

Keywords: Italy|Rome|Topography & Travel