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Plan des Thermes des Diocletien, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore

Designed and engraved by Jean Barbault French
Publisher Bouchard & Gravier Italian
1761
Not on view
Plate 34, Plan of the Baths of Diocletian (Thermae Diocletiani) in Rome, with inscriptions identifying the different sections of the thermae. This image, one of twenty-nine full-page plates in the volume, faces page 58, the first of eight pages of text describing the Baths. The proceeding plate 35 (View of the remains of the Baths of Diocletian) also relates to this thermae.

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  • Title: Plan des Thermes des Diocletien, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore
  • Artist: Designed and engraved by Jean Barbault (French, Viarmes 1718–1762 Rome)
  • Printer: Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
  • Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
  • Published in: Rome
  • Date: 1761
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 9 × 11 7/16 in. (22.8 × 29 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
  • Object Number: 52.519.87(65)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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