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Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After Sebastiaen Vrancx Netherlandish
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Title identifies the site as the Baths of Diolcetian. This is actually the partly ruined and overgrown entry to the Colosseum in Rome; tree in foreground at left.
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Title: Thermaru diocletiani Ruinae (Baths of Diocletian), from "Roman Ruins"
Series/Portfolio: Roman Ruins: Twelve plates (New Hollstein 1095-1106)
Etcher:
Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
Artist:
After Sebastiaen Vrancx (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1573–1647 Antwerp)
Date: 1651
Medium: Etching; second state of two
Dimensions: Sheet (clipped impression): 2 11/16 × 4 3/16 in. (6.8 × 10.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Object Number: 17.50.17-397
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