Lionne Antique, from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"
Unnumbered plate with a sculpture of a lion seen in profile. The altar at left with goat's heads at corners. This image appears below plate 18, with an interior view of the chambers of Columbarium of Livia. These two images appear across from page 18, which contains a portion of the chapter describing the Columbarium.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lionne Antique, from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"
- Series/Portfolio: Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie
- Etcher: Freicenet (Italian, active Rome, mid-18th century)
- Artist: After Jean Barbault (French, Viarmes 1718–1762 Rome)
- Printer: Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
- Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
- Published in: Rome
- Date: 1770
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Plate: 5 1/8 × 10 11/16 in. (13 × 27.2 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
- Object Number: 52.519.88(45)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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