• Unknown, Italy, mid 16th century (engraver (printmaker))
• Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
• Pope Julius II (patron)
• Michelangelo Buonarroti (architect)

Elevation of the Pompeius Asper relief

printed 1551

• record drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 34.3 x 49.6 cm (13 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)

DR1979:0288

• line drawing

• elevation (drawing)

• general view

- Sheet has an old vertical fold through c. and possibly traces of an offset image of an unidentified print on the verso.

inscribed and dated - by the engraver, in the plate on the image, u.l. to c.r.: "M POMPEIO M F ANI ASPRO / LEG XV APOLLINAR COH III PR / PRIMOP LEG III CYREN PRAEF CASTR / LEG XX VICTR / ATIMETVS LIB PVLLARIVS / FECIT [... with text of inscription on plaque]; and in the plate below the image, l.l. to l.r.: "IN / AEDIB FEDERICI CARD DE CAESIS SVB VATICANO / TABVLA MARM COHORTIVM SIGNIS DVOBVS AQVILAQ LEGIONARIA ATQVE ALIIS CVM INSTRVMENTIS BELLICIS TVM CAVEA PVLLARIA / INSCRIPTIONIBVSQ PERELEGANTIBVS INSIGNIS. ANT LAFRERI FORMIS EXACTISSIME DELINEATA ROMAE M D LI" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, l.r.: "45" [twice, both sideways]

Rome; Italy;

• sculpture

• relief