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

Perspective of the Sarcophagus of Constantina, Rome

printed 1553

• record drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 34.3 x 49.7 cm (13 1/2 x 19 9/16 in.)

DR1979:0286

• line drawing

• perspective drawing

• general view
• exterior view

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

inscribed, dated and numbered - by the engraver ? in the plate below the image, l.l. to l.r.: "ANTIQVI EX PORPHYRITE SARCOPHAGI IN BACCHI AD SECVNDVM AB VRBE VIA NOMENTANA LAPIDEM ut rudius propter marmoris duritiem uel artificis negligentiam uel saeculi sane barbariem tum in fronte et a tergo tum dextro / ac sinistro latere totidem et ijsdem figuris insculpti ita sepulcri Constantiae Constantini Magni Filae fama quamquam incerta vulgo noti DEFORMATIO Antonij Lafrerij sequani formis Romae M D LIII"; and l.r.: "8" [?] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, u.r.: "13"

• sculpture