with a more descriptive secondary title in French, ‘L’Amphitheatre des Soldats, Derrière S.te Croix à Ierusalem, A Rome’, depicting the ruins of the second century AD Castrense amphitheatre, showing how the remaining edifice had been incorporated into the city walls. It was adjacent to the basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, itself founded in the early 4th century AD by Saint Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine. It was developed upon the chapel within her palace which housed relics from Christ’s passion, and was so named because the original floor was composed of earth brought from Jerusalem, thereby making the site a satellite of that city. It became one of the seven pilgrimage churches of Rome. The title field includes a brief key in Italian and French, highlighting the Basilica and the city walls,
engraving on laid paper, 390 x 520 mm. (15 3/8 x 20 1/2 in), repaired splits at head and foot of a central vertical fold, with wide margins,