• Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
• Unknown, Italy, mid 16th century (engraver (printmaker))
• Claudius, Emperor of Rome (patron)

Perspective of Porta Maggiore, Rome

printed 1549

• record drawing
• theoretical drawing

Engraving

secondary support: 49.4 x 64.0 cm sheet: 36.7 x 48.5 cm

DR1979:0267

• line drawing

• perspective drawing

• general view
• exterior view

- Sheet is trimmed at or within plate mark and has an old vertical fold through c.

inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? en the plate on the image, u.l. to u.r.: "TI CLAVDVS DRVSI F CAESAR AVGVSTVS GERMANICVS PONTIF MAXIM / TRIBVNICIA POTESTATE XII COS V IMPERATOR XXVII PATER PATRIAE / AQVAS CLAVDIAM EX FONTIBVS QVI VOCABANTVR CAERVLEVS ET CVRTIVS A MILLIARIO XXXXV / ITEM ANIENEM NOVAM A MILLIARIO LXII SVA IMPENSA IN VRBEM PERDVCENDAS CVRAVIT / IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVGVST PONTIF MAX TRIB POT II IMP VI COS III DESIG IIII P P / AQVAS [...] / IMP T CAESAR DIVI F VESPASIANVS AAVGVSTVS PONTIFEX MAXIMVS TRIBVNIC / POTESTATE X IMPERATOR XVII PATER PATRIAE CENSOR [...]" [on upper story of monument]; and l.l. to l.r.: "Veteris aquae Claudiae ex Tiburtino forina; via portaque Naevia ac Labicana, nunc Maioris appellatione, novissima; servatis architecturae legibus, et eadem in anteriore exterioreque parte, uncialium litterarum inscriptione repetita; nobilis. / Antonij Lafrerij Romae 1549" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "24"

• architecture
• militaire