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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Title page. Title placed within an architectural frame supported by caryatids.

Maker


1512-1577

(engraver)
1525-1604

Title

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Title page. Title placed within an architectural frame supported by caryatids.

Date of Production

1575

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 29.2 cm (plate mark)
Width: 44.5 cm (plate mark)

Accession Number

B.1978.PG.102.1

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Zorach, Rebecca, The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome: printing and collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, Chicago 2008

Parshall, Peter, 'Antonio Lafreri's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae' in 'Print Quarterly', 2006 - pp. 3-28; XXIII (I)

Inscriptions

Inscription: 1

Inscription: 'Antonius Lafrery exc. Roma'

Inscription: 'SPECULUM / ROMANAE / MAGNIFICEN / TIAE. / .... / Accesserunt non paucae, tum antiquarum, tum modernarum rerum. Urbis figurae nunquam antehac aeditae.'

Inscription: 'Roma tenet propriis monumenta sepulta ruinis plurima, quae profert hic rediviva liber. Hunc igitur lector scrutare benigni, docebit urbis maiestas pristina quanta fuit.'

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