• Nicolas Beatrizet (engraver (printmaker))
• Antoine Lafréry (publisher)

Perspective of the statue of Marforio in front of a building, Rome, with inscribed stone markers in the foreground

printed 1550

• record drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 37.8 x 43.4 cm (14 7/8 x 17 1/16 in.)

DR1979:0314

• line drawing

• perspective drawing

• general view
• partial views
• exterior view

- Sheet is trimmed within plate mark, has an old vertical fold through c. and a line of black ink running from l.l. to l.r.

inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate on the image, u.c.: "Quest'é di Roma un nobil cittadino [...] Anchor che perdispetto/Gia lo storpiassin certi traditori / Come vedete, et ha nome. MARFVORI" [poem is inscribed on wall behind statue]; l.l.: "QVATTVOR HAS / STATVARVM BASES CVM / SVIS INSCRIPTIONIBVS / ANNO M D XLVII / VNA CVM ALIIS NONNVLLIS / AD ARCVM SEPT SEVERI / NON PROCVL AB HAC / MARFORII STATVA ERVTAS / NON ABSVRDE HIC SVBIVNGI / POSSE PVTAVIMVS / ANT LAFRERI SEQVANVS / EXCVDEBAT ROMAE / M D L [on plaque]; and l.l. to l.r.: with inscriptions on four separate funerary stones numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, u.r.: "71" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, u.r.: "71"

• architecture
• sculpture