Allegory of the history of the city of Rome. In the foreground, History sits with a pen in her hand. She looks up at a statue of Emperor Antoninus Pius. On the clouds sit Truth and Father Time. In the background the city of Rome. In the foreground the flowing god of the Tiber and Romulus and Remus in the reeds. Presumably a title page for a book on the city of Rome, History of the City of Rome., print maker: Pieter Tanjé, (mentioned on object), Louis Fabritius Dubourg, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1743, paper, etching, engraving, h 231 mm × w 174 mm

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