Vuë Externe des trois chambres Sepulcrales qu'on croit être de la Famille d'Auguste, plate 19 from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"

1770
Not on view
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Vuë Externe des trois chambres Sepulcrales qu'on croit être de la Famille d'Auguste, plate 19 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: 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
  • Object Number: 52.519.88(46)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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