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Plan des Thermes d'Antonin Caracalla, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore

1761
Not on view
Plate 36, Plan of the Baths of Caracalla, depicted on a fragmented "stone" surface. This image, one of twenty-nine full-page plates in the volume, faces page 66, the first of two pages of text describing the Baths. The proceeding two images (Patrie des Thermes d'Antonin Carcalla and Restes des Thermes d'Antonin Caracalla) both relate to this same thermae.

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  • Title: Plan des Thermes d'Antonin Caracalla, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore
  • Artist: After Carlo Nolli (Italian, Como 1724–after 1770 Naples)
  • Engraver: Dominico Montagu (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1750–76)
  • Printer: Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
  • Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
  • Published in: Rome
  • Date: 1761
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 10 3/8 × 8 3/4 in. (26.3 × 22.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
  • Object Number: 52.519.87(68)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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