Author: Unknown engraver, Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)
Title: [Antique print, etching/ets, Rome] PORTA NAEVIA, sive Major... Views of Rome [Set title] (gezicht op Rome: De Poort Naevia, of de Groote, heden die van het Heilig Kruis geheeten), published 1705.
Description: 44th 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': '44.Porta Major', view on the Porta Maggiore.Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch: 'PORTA NAEVIA, sive Major... / Pet Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:'De Poort Naevia - de Groote Poort - 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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