Perspective View of the Arch of Septimus Severus c1778

$185.00

Arch of Septimus Severus and St Martins Church. Antique print of Roman antiquities.

Original copperplate engraving for Middleton’s Complete System of Geography, its larger title being A new and complete system of geography: containing a full, accurate, authentic and interesting account and description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, as consisting of continents, islands, oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, promontories, capes, bays, peninsulas, isthmusses, gulphs, &c. … with their strange ceremonies, customs, amusements, &c. &c. which included ethnography, architecture and topography, by Charles Theodore Middleton. Published in London circa 1777-8.

Page size 23 x 36cm (9 x 14 1/8 inches). To plate mark measure 19 x 29cm (7 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches).