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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Bifolio etching of temples on the Isle of the Tiber.

Maker

(engraver)
1525-1604

Title

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Bifolio etching of temples on the Isle of the Tiber.

Date of Production

1582

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.102.5

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)

Huelsen, Christian, 'Das Speculum Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri' in Collectanea Variae Doctrinae, Florence 1921 - pp.121-170
cat. 110.1
Fig. p. p.163

Inscriptions

Inscription: 7

Inscription: 8

Inscription: 'AYTAIC . TAIC . H . MEPAIC . /... / .... /

Inscription: 'Scenographia insulae Tyberina, quae abeo tempore esse cepit .... / ..... / .... / Stephanus Du Perac Pariensis'

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