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The Sepulchre of Cecilia Metella Crasi; upon the Appian Way, Two Miles from Rome.
The Sepulchre of Cecilia Metella Crasi; upon the Appian Way, Two Miles from Rome. The Walls are 25 Feet thick, Sounding a Trumpet within it the Echo returns it 8 times.
Buisiri del: T. Smith pin: F. Vivares sc.
Publish'd 25 July 1746.
Fine engraving with etching. 550 x 400mm (21¾ x 15¾"). Tears in the margins. Slight staining.
A view of the mausoleum of Cecilia Metella daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, whose father served under Julius Ceasar, built in the 1st Century BC and located on one of the southern roads into Rome. The scene shows the ruins of the rotunda and walls, several figures examine the fragments of ancient architecture which line the route.
[Ref: 40272]   £330.00  

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Fountain's Abbey, from the South East;
Fountain's Abbey, from the South East; Situate two Miles West of Rippon in Yorkshire.
Tho. Smith Pinx. F. Vivares sculp.
Publish'd 1769 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside No 90, H. Parker in Cornhill No 82, & J. Bowles No 13. in Cornhill.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 380 x 530mm (15 x 20¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into inscription area at bottom, laid on board.
Fountains Abbey, the largest and best preserved Cistercian houses in England. Founded in 1132 it lasted for over 400 years, until Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. It is now part of the Studley Royal Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This view was published the year after William Aislabie (1700-81) bought the Fountains estate for £16,000 and added it to the Studley estate that he had inherited, expanding his father's water garden around the abbey.
[Ref: 38167]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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[Italian landscape.] Engraved from an Original Picture of F: Zuccarelli, In the Possession of W:m Herring Esq.r.
[Italian landscape.] Engraved from an Original Picture of F: Zuccarelli, In the Possession of W:m Herring Esq.r.
F. Zuccarelli Pinx.t. F. Vivares Sculp.
Publish'd by F. Vivares 7th August 1753. But later.
Etching. 410 x 500mm (16 x 19¾"), with large margins. Rubbing in margins.
An Italianate landscape with an itinerant woman and child begging. A state with 'No.10' added bottom left.
[Ref: 57921]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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