from the Rome edition of ‘Vedute di Roma’, the remains of the enormous early 1st century AD tomb for the family of Lucanus Plautius, after whom the nearby Ponte Lugano was named, its proximity mentioned in the title tablet in the lower foreground, which also describes it as on the Via Tiburtina, two miles from Tivoli,
etching with engraving on thick laid paper with a fleur-de-lys in a double circle watermark, 1st and only Roman state, 465 x 625 mm., a central vertical fold with a parallel repaired tear at the head, some marginal damp-staining, spotting and surface dirt, [H.83 I; F.783; WE.216],