Monuments Sepulcraux des Soldats de la garde Prétorienne, plate 32 from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"

1770

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Plate 32, Capriccio with view of the funerary cippi of the Praetorian guard. The oversized burial markers are set in a landscape, with groups of figures throughout. This is the seventh of thirteen plates with funerary urns, altars and cippi. Below this plate is an untitled and unnumbered image with a fragment of a bas-relief showing the back of a male figure who stands behind a low wall. These two images appear before page 27, which contains a portion of the chapter describing this plate.

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Title: Monuments Sepulcraux des Soldats de la garde Prétorienne, plate 32 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
Artist: After Jean Barbault (French, Viarmes 1718–1762 Rome)
Etcher: Dominico Montagu (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1750–76)
Printer: Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
Published in: Rome
Date: 1770
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 8 3/16 × 10 13/16 in. (20.8 × 27.4 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
Object Number: 52.519.88(69)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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