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Temple du Dieu ridicule, a trois milles hors de Rome entre la Voie Latine et la Voie Appia, elevé par les Romains en derision du depart d'Annibal, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore

1761
Not on view
Plate 15, Temple Rediculum or Tomb of Annia Regilla, between the Appian Way and the Via Latina outside of Rome. Livestock and a lute player are visible in the foreground. Below this plate is a second plate with the Nympheum of Egeria. While the bottom plate is unnumbered, this is one of only a few examples in the volume where the two half-page images on a sheet both depict Roman monuments. These two images appear facing page 21, which includes text describing both the Temple of Rediculum and the Fountain of Nymph Egeria.

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  • Title: Temple du Dieu ridicule, a trois milles hors de Rome entre la Voie Latine et la Voie Appia, elevé par les Romains en derision du depart d'Annibal, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore
  • Artist: After Jean Barbault (French, Viarmes 1718–1762 Rome)
  • Engraver: Dominico Montagu (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1750–76)
  • Printer: Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
  • Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
  • Published in: Rome
  • Date: 1761
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 6 1/16 × 9 7/16 in. (15.4 × 24 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
  • Object Number: 52.519.87(31)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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