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Vuë Externe des trois chambres Sepulcrales qu'on croit être de la Famille d'Auguste, from Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie

1770

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Plate 19, View of the exterior of Columbarium of Livia, discovered along the Via Appia in 1726 and now destroyed. Below this plate is an unnumbered and untitled image showing a fragment of a bas-relief with two robed female figures. These two images appear after page 18, which contains a portion of the chapter describing the Columbarium of Livia.

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Title: Vuë Externe des trois chambres Sepulcrales qu'on croit être de la Famille d'Auguste, from Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie

Etcher: Dominico Montagu (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1750–76)

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: 8 5/8 × 10 5/16 in. (21.9 × 26.2 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952

Accession Number: 52.519.88(46)

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Rome and Southern Italy, 1600-1800 A.D.

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