![[The banks of the Tiber] Veduta dell' Antiche sostruzioni fatto da Tarquino, dette il bel Lido,](jpegs/51488.jpg)
[The banks of the Tiber] Veduta dell' Antiche sostruzioni fatto da Tarquino, dette il bel Lido,e da altri, da Marco Agrippa à tempi di Augusto quando ripurgò le Cloache sino di Tevere.
Rossini dis. e inc.
Roma 1823.
Etching. 420 x 650mm (16½ x 25½"), with large margins, uncut. Tears and creasing to margins top and right.
A view of the banks of the Tiber near the Foro Boario, before the modern embankment. In the centre of the plate ('A' in the key) is the outflow of the Cloaca Maxima, one of the world's first sewers, supposedly built by Tarquinius Priscus c.600BC. Above is the Temple of Hercules Victor, the colonnaded circular form of which led it to be misidentified as a Temple of Vesta.
The first state, before the plate number, issued unbound. From an early 19th century folder titled 'Roman Engravings. The Property of Major E.G.G. Rugdon[?]'.
[Ref: 51488] £750.00
Roma 1823.
Etching. 420 x 650mm (16½ x 25½"), with large margins, uncut. Tears and creasing to margins top and right.
A view of the banks of the Tiber near the Foro Boario, before the modern embankment. In the centre of the plate ('A' in the key) is the outflow of the Cloaca Maxima, one of the world's first sewers, supposedly built by Tarquinius Priscus c.600BC. Above is the Temple of Hercules Victor, the colonnaded circular form of which led it to be misidentified as a Temple of Vesta.
The first state, before the plate number, issued unbound. From an early 19th century folder titled 'Roman Engravings. The Property of Major E.G.G. Rugdon[?]'.
[Ref: 51488] £750.00