Author: Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets, Rome] PALATII, ut et annexi CIRCI MAXIMI... Views of Rome [Set title] (Gezicht op Rome: Overgebleven muiren, van het Keizerlyk Paleis, en een groote renbaan), published 1705.
Description: 36th 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': '36.Palatium Augustorum', view on the ruins of the Palace of August, facing the Circus Maximus.Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch: 'PALATII, ut et annexi CIRCI MAXIMI... / Pet Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:'Circus Maximus - Rome - Schenk Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 165 x 194 mm; total: 187 x 254 mm; state I/2; despite light staining along the right margin especially, in very good condition. Hollstein 1497-1596.

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