Album with Roman scenes, Album with 35 prints and 8 text pages, all mounted on album pages. The album contains prints depicting the history of Emperor Constantine, reliefs on the Arch of Septimius Severus and Roman buildings, some of which belong to the print corpus known as the 'Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae' ('Mirror of Roman Splendor'). The text pages come from Joseph Marie Suares' publication on the Arch of Septimius Severus, from which the prints of the reliefs also come. This is a factice album, that is to say: an album compiled by a collector or owner of the prints. The album contains 9 blank album pages and a large number of remnants of removed album pages. The album pages are numbered 31-92 at the top right, with the pages missing the following numbers: 48-68, 74, 79 and 84. On the front cover page a label written by Simon Schijnvoet. A parchment binding with gold decoration., print maker: diverse vervaardigers, Italy, in or after 1689, paper, etching, engraving, letterpress printing, height 520 mm × width 425 mm × thickness 30 mm, width 850 mm
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