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

Perspective of Pirro Ligorio's reconstruction for the Theatre of Marcellus, Rome

printed after 1558

• record drawing
• theoretical drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 40.9 x 55.9 cm (16 1/8 x 22 in.)

DR1979:0264

• line drawing

• perspective drawing

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

- Sheet is trimmed within plate mark and has an old vertical fold through c.

inscribed - by the engraver ? in the plate above the image, t.: "THEATRVM MARCELLI"; u.l.: "I. SCAENA /II. PROSCAENIVM / III.PVLPITVM / IIII. ORCHESTRA / V. CORVS / VI. CAVEA / VII.PODIA SIVE CVNEI"; and in various locations: with numbers I to VII on the image, corresponding to the legend numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "21" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, in various locations: "21"

• architecture