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

Bird's-eye perspective and plan of the Castra Praetoria, Rome

printed after 1553

• theoretical drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 32.4 x 52.2 cm (12 3/4 x 20 9/16 in.)

DR1979:0278

• line drawing

• perspective drawing
• plan (drawing)

• general views
• bird's-eye view
• exterior view
• interior view

- Sheet is trimmed at or within plate mark and has an old vertical fold through c. There is an offset image of an unidentified print on the verso.

inscribed - by the engraver, in the plate on the image, c.l.: "AEDES AVGVST" [on temple frieze]; u.l.: "CASTRVM PRAETORIVM ROMAE"; u.r.: "CASTRO PRAETORIANO"; c.: "LATO VERSO IL VIVARIO" [sideways]; c.r.: "AEDICVLA / PORTICO"; l.l.: "Bolognini Zalterij / formis" and l.r.: "LATO DI DENTRO LA CITTA" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "35" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, in various locations: "35" [all erased]

• architecture
• militaire