TEMPLUM DIVI PIETRI… Views of Rome [Set title]

Beschrijving

73rd 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’:’73. Templum S. Petri’, bird view on the S. Peter’s square and basilica in Rome with a procession approacing on horses. Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:’TEMPLUM DIVI PIETRI… / P Schenck exc: Amstelod: cum Privil:’