• Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
• Unknown, Italy, mid 16th century (engraver (printmaker))
• Faustina, Annia Galeria, Empress, consort of Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome (dedicatee)
• Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome (patron)

Perspective reconstruction of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Rome

printed 1565

• record drawing
• theoretical drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 49,7 x 34,5 cm (19 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.)

DR1979:0252

• line drawing

• perspective drawing
• composite drawing

• general view
• exterior view

- Sheet has an old horizontal fold through c.

inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate above the image, u.l. to u.r.: "Hoc templum in foro Romano situm cuius integram vides formam et si ex parte sit dirutum sic tamen olim fuisse uel ipsae ruinae manifestissime ostendunt."; in the plate on the image, c.l. to c.: "DIVO.ANTONINO.ET / DIVAE.FAVSTINAE.EX.S.C." [on temple frieze]; and in the plate to the l.r. of the image, l.r.: "Ant. Lafrerij aeneis formis cum gratia et / privilegio Romae an. M.D.LXV." numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, u.r.: "9" [partially erased]

• architecture