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This elegant building with statues and fountains is the Mausoleum of Hadrian, today Castel Sant'Angelo.
Based on a classical Roman engraving by Pietro Santi Bartoli from 1690
In excellent condition on contemporary laid paper with watermark, wide editorial margins, slight foxing of the time
Etching and burin
From private collection
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
II state with the numbering at the top right
From the series: "Romanae magnitudinis monumenta quae urbem illam urbis ..."
By Domenico de' Rossi, 1699
Ref. Bibl: C.A. Petrucci, General catalog of the prints taken from the engraved branches owned by the National Chalcography, 1408, p. 21, 1953
Le Blanc C., Manuel de L'Amateur D'estampes 572, V. 1 p. 162, 1854-59 67493979
