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

Elevation of a relief from the Campus Martius showing the sacrifice of a bull, known as the Suovetaurilia

printed 1553

• record drawing

Engraving on laid paper

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

DR1979:0297

• line drawing

• elevation (drawing)

• partial view

- Sheet has an old vertical fold through c.

inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate below the image, l.l. to l.r.: "Solitauriliorum sacrificiorum; quae, lustro peracto, Verris Arietis ac Tauri (quod integri solidique corporis sint) immolatione, Censores Vrbem lustrantes, omnibus Centurijs et Equitibus in campum Martium convocatis, sollemni more / faciebant; ex antiqua marmorea tabella, Romae, parieti cuidam, in Marci, fixa; illustris effigies. / Antonij Lafrerij formis Romae 1553" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, u.r.: "54" [twice, sideways]

Rome; Italy;

• sculpture

• relief