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Engraved cutaway section and elevation of the Colosseum showing arcaded tiers, interior seating and arena floor.

Section and elevation of the Colosseum in Rome

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Engraving of a naval battle with ornate ships, muscular warriors with shields, and sea creatures in choppy waves.

Plate 7: a battle taking place between men in boats

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-90

Engraving of soldiers fighting on a ship while nude men climb its side, with a river god reclining at right.

Plate 8: battle between soldiers on a boat and naked men trying to climb in, a river god at right

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-90

Engraving of armored men and robed figures unloading baskets and goods from an ornate boat onto a shore.

Plate 5: figures unloading goods from a boat at the right

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-90

Engraving of muscular men poling ornate decorated boats through choppy water, with mythological figures and masks on the hull

Plate 6: figures in boats decorated with mythological subjects using poles to propel them

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-60

Engraving of soldiers and sailors feasting at a tavern with a Duke of Cumberland sign, a Frenchman at a window, and marching

The Invasion, Plate 2: England

William Hogarth, March 8, 1756

Engraving of Achilles dragging Hector's body by a chariot before a walled city, with a winged Victory figure above.

Achilles dragging the body of Hector around the walls of Troy

Pietro Testa, 1648-50

Etching of Dido on a pyre in a columned hall, surrounded by mourning women, with Cupid and figures in clouds above.

The suicide of Dido who reclines on a pyre in centre, surrounded by many figures

Giovanni Cesare Testa, 1650-55

Etching of Iphigenia's sacrifice at an altar, with Artemis appearing in clouds above a hind and armored onlookers.

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Arnold van Westerhout, 1650-1700

Etching of men carrying a limp figure down temple steps past columns, with a chariot and crowd in the foreground.

Sinorix being carried from the temple after being poisioned

Arnold van Westerhout, 1650-1700

Etching of a reclining woman surrounded by crowding figures, with an oval portrait medallion in the lower left.

The Suicide of Dido

Pietro Testa, 1650-1700

Etching of an allegory of painting: putti, a winged figure and many seated men drawing around a central easel in a wooded lan

An allegory of painting, who as an child in the centre left draws on a tablet, surrounded by figures, many of whom ar…

Pietro Testa, 1650-1700

Engraving of an emperor and soldiers, a prophet at an altar, and a reclining nude with angels and putti in a landscape.

The Prophecy of Basilides

Giovanni Cesare Testa, ca. 1650

Engraving of figures in classical dress carrying barrels and baskets in a procession moving right, with trees behind.

Plate 3: various figures transporting materials, walking to the right

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-90

Engraving of horses, mules and oxen carrying barrels and baskets, led by figures walking right through trees.

Plate 4: animals transporting goods being led by figures going to the right

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-90

Engraved procession of classical figures carrying jars, baskets and a trumpet across a wooded background.

Plate 1: A Procession

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-90

Engraving of nude men tying a sack and loading a horse beside a brick wall and trees.

Plate 2: various figures carrying out tasks that include tying a sack and loading a horse

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-90

Etching of a kneeling bearded figure writing on a tiled floor, with robed onlookers, columns, and a woman before soldiers at

Christ kneels and writes on the pavement at center and a woman taken in adultery by three soldiers at right

Luca Giordano, 1653

Etched title page with an ornate urn, reclining figures and ruins, and the lettered title Vedute di Roma by Piranesi.

Title page for "Vedute di Roma"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1760-78

Etching of tall ruined brick arches of Nero's aqueduct in Rome with small figures and a donkey on a road.

View of Nero's aqueduct, Rome

Luigi Rossini, 1823

Etching of a bacchanalian procession with a wine vat cart, putti, grape baskets, and revelers blowing horns.

The Arrival of the Wine Vat

Joseph-Marie Vien, ca.1755

Etching of ruined Corinthian temple columns above a road with travelers, goats, and a donkey, with a relief arch at right.

View of the so-called Temple of Concord with the Temple of Saturn, on the right the Arch of Septimius Severus

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1760-78

Etching of an overgrown Roman grotto with arches, a fountain, small figures, and a temple on the hill above.

View of the fountainhead and the Grotto of Egiria outside the Porta Capena, from "Vedute di Roma"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1760-78

Etching of Jupiter on a cloud with Juno, a white cow at left, and putti holding an eagle at lower right.

Io at the left as a cow, Jupiter on a cloud in the centre and Juno at the right with putti holding an eagle captive i…

Pietro Sante Bartoli, 1650-90

Engraving of a plumed man gesturing over Roman antiquities, statues and a distant city, by Francesco Villamena, 1623.

Portrait of Ioannes Altus (Johann Alten), of the Swiss Guard, standing by the Quirinal and pointing out the antiquiti…

Francesco Villamena, 1623

Etching of the Rialto Bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, with gondolas, arcaded buildings and figures on the quay.

Plate 9: The bridge and market of the Rialto, Venice, from "Views of Venice" (Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis V…

Michele Marieschi, 1741

Etching of soldiers hammering nails into a barrel beside horsemen, with a crumbling stone wall at left and a cloudy sky.

The death of Marcus Atilius Regulus, showng being nailed into a tub by the Carthaginians

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1661-62

Engraving of the Holy Family resting on the flight into Egypt, with an angel and two putti above, in a hilly landscape.

The rest on the flight into Egypt (from A Collection of Etchings and Engravings in Imitation of Drawings from Various…

Andrea Scacciati, ca. 1750-60

Engraving of the Holy Family resting in a boat with angels and cherubs above, beside a river and wooded mountain landscape.

The rest on the Flight into Egypt

Andrea Scacciati, 1740-71

Etching of a crowd beneath a man bound to a cross on a hillside, with soldiers and mourners and a rocky cliff behind.

The crucifixion of Polycrates the tyrant after his capture by the Persians

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1662