Item 2521Sallust
C1800. Stipple engraving. C1800. 90mm by 55mm. Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86BC-35BC), usually knwon as Sallust, was a Roman historian, politician, and novus homo from a provincial plebeian family.
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Item 815Roman statue - Sleeping Cupid
1856. Steel-engraving. 1856. 250mm by 305mm (platemark). From a series of engravings depicting the Classical sculptures in the British Museum. Corbould was a student of the Royal Academy, under Fuseli, where he gained the silver medal for a study from the life. While at the Academy he made the friendship.....
Item 2768Roman vases and urns
C1820. Copper-line engraving. C1820. 175mm by 130mm (platemark) 330mm by 215mm (sheet size). 'Tazza Antica, Trovata fuori di Porta del Popolo'. Detailed Neoclassical engravings depicting the Roman bronze and marble vases in collections of antiquities in Rome.
Item 803Antiquities of Heculaneum
C1770. Copper-line engraving. C1770. 250mm by 350mm (platemark). Wall-painting from Herculaneum. From 'Le Antichita di Ercolano' (The Antiquities of Heculaneum), which was a collection of images of archeological finds from the excavations at the Roman city of Herculaneum. It was published over a 40 year period from 1744 to 1792.....
Item 804Antiquities of Heculaneum - Two priestesses with offerings
C1770. Copper-line engraving. C1770. 245mm by 345mm (platemark). Wall-painting of 'Two priestesses with offerings' from Herculaneum. From 'Le Antichita di Ercolano' (The Antiquities of Heculaneum), which was a collection of images of archeological finds from the excavations at the Roman city of Herculaneum. It was published over a 40 year.....
Item 809Antiquities of Heculaneum
C1770. Copper-line engraving. C1770. 350mm by 250mm (platemark). 'Grandi quanto gl'Originali'. Statuettes from Herculaneum. From 'Le Antichita di Ercolano' (The Antiquities of Heculaneum), which was a collection of images of archeological finds from the excavations at the Roman city of Herculaneum. It was published over a 40 year period from.....
Item 856Faustina
C1740. Copper-line engraving. C1740. 565mm by 440mm (frame). Annia Galeria Faustina, more familiarly referred to as Faustina I (c100 - 140), was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. From ""Delle Antiche Statue Greche e Romane..., ""a collection of ancient Greek and Roman statues found in Venice.....
Item 860Faustina
C1740. Copper-line engraving. C1740. 565mm by 440mm (frame). Annia Galeria Faustina, more familiarly referred to as Faustina I (c100 - 140), was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. From ""Delle Antiche Statue Greche e Romane..., ""a collection of ancient Greek and Roman statues found in Venice.....
Item 859Satyr
C1740. Copper-line engraving. C1740. 565mm by 440mm (frame). Copper-line engraving. C1740. From "Delle Antiche Statue Greche e Romane..., "a collection of ancient Greek and Roman statues found in Venice by Antonio Maria Zanetti the elder (1680-1757). Faldoni is considered one of the best reproductive engravers working in Venice during the.....
Item 858Vitellius
C1740. Copper-line engraving. C1740. 565mm by 440mm (frame). Vitellius, was Roman Emperor for eight months, from 16 April to 22 December 69. Vitellius was proclaimed emperor following the quick succession of the previous emperors Galba and Otho, in a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four.....
Item 791Piazza Colonna, Rome
C1825. Etching. C1825. 230mm by 310mm (sheet). 'Ved. della Colonna Antonina del Piazza Colonna' The column was erected by Commodus, the son of Marcus Aurelius, to celebrate his father's victories.An etching published by Antonelli in Rome, c1825. Antonelli published a series of views of Rome by some of 'the most.....
Item 792St Peters, Vatican
C1825. Etching. C1825. 230mm by 310mm (sheet). 'Veduta delle Bas. di S. Pietro in Vaticano' An etching published by Antonelli in Rome, c1825. Antonelli published a series of views of Rome by some of 'the most famous artists of the day'."
Item 2691Piranesi - Spaccato del Mauseleo di Ottaviano Augusto
1800. Etching. 1800. 405mm by 550mm (platemark). From Piranesi’s, Antichità Romane, Paris edition published by Francesco Piranesi. Piranesi (1720-1778) was an Italian architect and etcher. He published series of etchings of archaeological interest, views of Rome and an imaginary series of prisons. He was a very important figure in late.....
Item 798Column of Antoninus Pius
C1628. Engraving. C1628. 180mm by 240mm (platemark). Lauro produced a series of engravings of the ancient monuments of Classical Rome with detailed descriptions in Latin below. The Column of Antoninus Pius is an honorific column devoted in 161AD to the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, in the Campus Martius."
Item 835Les Bergers Romains
C1755. Copper-line engraving. C1755. 410mm by 455mm (platemark). A landscape with Roman shepherds. Classical ruins include a fountain decorated with a lion, a triumphal arch and sarcophagus. Pierre Mettay was a French painter who attend the French Academy in Rome. CONDITION : Proof, before lettering. Laid, watermarked paper. Good impression.....
Item 857Julia Domna
C1740. Copper-line engraving. C1740. 565mm by 440mm (frame). Julia Domna (170 AD -217 AD) was a member of the Severan dynasty of the Roman Empire. Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus and mother of Emperors Geta and Caracalla, Julia was among the most important women ever to.....
Item 808Antiquities of Heculaneum
C1770. Copper-line engraving. C1770. 250mm by 350mm (platemark). 'Grandi come gli oringinali'. Statuettes from Herculaneum. From 'Le Antichita di Ercolano' (The Antiquities of Heculaneum), which was a collection of images of archeological finds from the excavations at the Roman city of Herculaneum. It was published over a 40 year period.....
Item 805Antiquities of Heculaneum
C1770. Copper-line engraving. C1770. 350mm by 250mm (platemark). Wall-painting from Herculaneum. From 'Le Antichita di Ercolano' (The Antiquities of Heculaneum), which was a collection of images of archeological finds from the excavations at the Roman city of Herculaneum. It was published over a 40 year period from 1744 to 1792.....
Item 807Antiquities of Heculaneum
C1770. Copper-line engraving. C1770. 350mm by 250mm (platemark). 'Grandi come gli oringinali'. Wall-paintings from Herculaneum. From 'Le Antichita di Ercolano' (The Antiquities of Heculaneum), which was a collection of images of archeological finds from the excavations at the Roman city of Herculaneum. It was published over a 40 year period.....
Item 790Zingara (Diana)
1704. Line engraving. 1704. 345mm by 215mm (platemark). 'Statua d'una zingara' From 'Raccolta de Statue Antiche e Moderne'; a collection of prints after important antique and 'modern' statues in Italy, engraved by various artists and published by Domenico de Rossi, circa 1704.The Zingara is an ancient statue of goddess Diana.....
Item 806Antiquities of Heculaneum - Statuettes
C1770. Copper-line engraving. C1770. 250mm by 350mm (platemark). 'Grandi come gli oringinali'. Statuettes from Herculaneum. From 'Le Antichita di Ercolano' (The Antiquities of Heculaneum), which was a collection of images of archeological finds from the excavations at the Roman city of Herculaneum. It was published over a 40 year period.....
Item 801Pompeii - Frescoes and sections
C1830. Aquatint. C1830. 270mm by 320mm (platemark). Sections, Ornements et Statues retrouves a Pompei'. Aquatint by Paul Fumagalli, produced between 1821 and 1830, published in 'Pompeia Traite Pittoresque, Historique et Geometrique ...', Florence, about 1830. Printed on fine wove paper with a strong plate mark and good margins.
Item 802Pompeii - Paintings and Bas-Relief
C1830. Aquatint. C1830. 270mm by 320mm (platemark). Peintures et Bas-relief trouves a Pompeia'. Aquatint by Paul Fumagalli, produced between 1821 and 1830, published in 'Pompeia Traite Pittoresque, Historique et Geometrique ...', Florence, about 1830. Printed on fine wove paper with a strong plate mark and good margins.
Item 3815Giove Ammone (Jupiter Ammon)
1741. Copper-line engraving. 1741. 225mm by 160mm (platemark) 420mm by 270mm (sheet). Plate number top right corner of image. Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) was an Italian painter and engraver from Florence, active under the patronage of the House of Medici. Illustration of an Ancient Roman marble bust from.....
Item 2522Horatius (Horace)
Stipple engraving. 140mm by 85mm (image) 270mm by 190mm (sheet). Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65BC-8BC), known as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. India-laid. trimmed within the platemark on the right hand side."