• Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
• Unknown, Italy, mid 16th century (engraver (printmaker))

Perspective of the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella, Rome

printed 1549

• record drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 49.7 x 34.5 cm (19 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.)

DR1979:0281

• line drawing

• perspective drawing

• general view
• exterior view

inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate above the image, t.: "AD METELLAE ECHO / CRETICVS HIC NATAM CRASSVS HVMASSE IVGALEM / FERTVR ET HINC QVESTVS CONGEMINARE LOCVM"; in the plate on the image, u.c.: "CAECILIAE / Q CRETICI F / METELLAE CRASSI" [on monument]; and in the plate below the image, l.l. to l.r.: "Metellae Vxoris Crassi sepulchrum, editiore Appiae viae loco conspicuum. Est igitur opus ampliore ac rotunda mole, ex lapide quadrato / Tiburtino; marmoreo Zophoro trophaeis et boum capitibus insigni, vulgo notum. Vt autem, antiquitate, hippodromo Caracallae, / Tullique testimonio clarum est; ita, totidem verborum sententiam Echo quinquies reddente, omnibus admirabile prope, videatur. / Antonij Lafrerij Romae 1549." numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, u.r.: "38"

• architecture